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Trinket   /trˈɪŋkət/   Listen
noun
Trinket  n.  (Naut.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. "Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands."


Trinket  n.  
1.
A knife; a cutting tool.
2.
A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.
3.
A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.


verb
Trinket  v. i.  To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue. (Obs.)





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"Trinket" Quotes from Famous Books



... with her misery, for she went about wringing her hands and sobbing as if her heart were broken. Here and there she picked her way, peering into the smoking ashes and now and then poking among them for a trinket or a keepsake that the fire had only blackened. It was a pathetic sight indeed, and the sturdy scouts all felt heavy hearted as they ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump
... if you want to give me another remembrancer than that which will always live in my heart, present me, as the highest token of your favor, with the little gold smelling-bottle which I saw you use in the Logograph box on that dreadful day.' I gave him the trinket at once. He kneeled down in order to receive it, and when he kissed my hand his hot tears fell upon it. Ah, Elizabeth, no one of those to whom in the days of our happiness I gave jewels, and to whom I gave hundreds of thousands, cherished for me ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... William searched his dressing-table and his father's, although he had been thoroughly over both once before that day. Next he went through most of his mother's and Jane's accessories to the toilette; through trinket-boxes, glove-boxes, hairpin-boxes, handkerchief-cases—even through sewing-baskets. Utterly he convinced himself that ladies not only use no collar-buttons, but also never pick them up and put them away among their own belongings. How much time he consumed in this search is difficult ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington
... But we know that in certain employments all things are fair." He looked at her not knowing what were the employments to which she alluded. "At any rate you will oblige me by—by—by not being troublesome, and putting this little trinket into ...
— The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope
... grandson mine, the treasure take, A trinket loved, if little, And wear it, darling, for my sake, In yonder ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 25, 1891 • Various


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