Dictionary

bibelot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bib(ə)ləʊ/ (UK)
• /bib(ə)loʊ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from French bibelot.

Meanings

1. A bauble, knickknack or trinket.
   • Barbara's glance now falls on the bibelot, which she picks up. She catches sight of the curtain and, bibelot in hand, goes to align it. She suddenly becomes aware of the bibelot in her hand. 1960, Arthur Kober, George Oppenheimer, A Mighty Man is He, Dramatists Play Service, page 31:
   • Excluded from the world of 'true,' high culture, women, it was claimed, loved books primarily as bibelots, like silks, lace, sconces, fans, or porcelain. 2008, Willa Z. Silverman, The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914, University of Toronto Press, page 191:
   • 1886, F. Marion Crawford, A Tale of a Lonely Parish, 2012, Project Gutenberg (Tredition Classics), unnumbered page, In her own eyes she was indeed living in a state approaching to penury, but the spectacle of her pictures, her furniture and her bibelots had impressed John with a very different idea.
2. A miniature book of an elegant design.

Forms

Translations (4)

fi muistoesine (bauble) · pl bibelot (bauble) · fi pikku koriste-esine (bauble) · fi pikkuesine (bauble)