Example sentences for: bric-a-brac

How can you use “bric-a-brac” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Christian Dior subsidized a show of Dior couture; Tiffany paid for a show of Tiffany bibelots; Fabergé underwrote a show of Fabergé eggs, jewels, and bric-a-brac for which a Fabergé consultant was the guest curator.

  • The many interesting antiques shops here vouch for the authenticity of old Spanish and Puerto Rican furniture, clocks, and bric-a-brac.

  • A late painting like Christine Lerolle Embroidering (1897), with its complex weave of frames within frames, is a veritable catalog of the craftsmanlike bric-a-brac Renoir admired: the embroidery frame constructed of bamboo; William Morris wallpaper; a Japanese vase; the rough-hewed paintings of Degas and Renoir himself that the connoisseurs are inspecting in the background.

  • Young upwardly mobile peddlers of old and new-old china and other bric-a-brac on Queen’s Quay West call their flea market the Harbourfront Antique Market.

  • On Old Market Square itself, on summer weekends, you’ll find a colorful farmer’s market alongside stalls of antique bric-a-brac and craftware.


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