Why “baublery” is a great word
The collective practice or assemblage of showy, trivial, and gaudy trinkets or ornaments. From the noun 'bauble' (a showy trinket or ornament) and the suffix '-ry' (denoting a collective or a practice), formed within English. Unlike regalia, which dignifies rank with ceremony, or an heirloom, which accrues meaning through generations, baublery is decoration without consequence. It is the clatter of a dozen plastic beaded curtains, the tawdry glint of foil-coated coins in a fountain, and the dizzying shimmer of a thousand synthetic tassels on a carnival costume—the sad, frantic poetry of things that cannot last.
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