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Bauble : ウィキペディア英語版
Bauble

A bauble is a spherical Christmas ornament, usually hung on a Christmas tree.
It may be a blend of two different words, an Old French ''フランス語:baubel'', a child's plaything, and an old English ''babyll'', something swinging to and fro. It was applied to a stick with a weight attached, used in weighing, to a child's toy, and especially to the mock symbol of office carried by a court jester, a baton terminating in a figure of Folly with cap and bells, and sometimes having a bladder fastened to the other end. Hence it became a term for any triviality or childish folly.
Although its meaning is restricted in modern English, the word was once used by both British and American writers to mean either a small object extravagantly decorated (such as Dickens's "rich bauble of a casket"), a previously valuable object that has lost its worth (such as the suicidal King Aegeus's crown and scepter in Hawthorne's ''Tanglewood Tales''), or even an abstraction such as immortality.
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