trangam

plural trangams

1. obsoleteA showy or worthless article.First known use mid-17–19th c.

   Hey day! vvhat's here? vvhat a Devil's the meaning of all theſe Trangams and Gimcracks, Gentlemen?

   1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of Some Quarrels that Happen’d after Peg was Taken into the Family”, in John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 24

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   And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […]

   1820, [Walter Scott], The Abbot. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: bauble, novelty, bric-a-brac, fandangle, fangle, fizgig, folderol, gewgaw