finnimbrun

plural finnimbruns

1. obsoleteA trifle, trinket or knick-knack

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   Let me tell you, Scholar, that Diogenes walked on a day, with his friend, to see a country fair; where he saw ribbons, and looking-glasses, and nutcrackers, and fiddles, and hobby-horses, and many other gimcracks; and, having observed them, and all the other finnimbruns that make a complete country-fair, he said to his friend, "Lord, how many things are there in this world of which Diogenes hath no need!"

   1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 5th edition, Project Gutenberg, published 1996, part I, chapter XXI