The story
- French · borrowed frombric-à-brac“miscellaneous items of little value”
- English todaybric-a-brac
Borrowed from French bric-à-brac (“miscellaneous items of little value”), apparently from à bricq et à bracq (“at random; haphazardly”); bricq and bracq are expressive onomatopoeias of obscure origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.