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a small shiny lie your tree tells to make winter feel worth surviving.
means A small, showy ornament or trinket of little real value.
from From Middle English 'babel' or 'babyl', borrowed from Old French 'baubel', meaning a child's plaything or toy. The Old French word is thought to come from a reduplicated root suggesting something small and pretty — possibly echoing baby-talk or the doubled, babbling sounds of trifling things. The same instinct that makes us coo over shiny nothings seems baked into the word itself.
- old roots
- From French baubel, meaning child's plaything or trinket.
- jester's scepter
- A bauble was the fool's mock staff of office.
- glass origins
- German glassblowers first spun ornaments in the 1840s.
- fragile by design
- Thin glass shatters easily, making each one briefly precious.
murano glass baubles — venetian glassblowers in murano, italy have crafted decorative glass ornaments since the 15th century
christmas ornaments at macy's — nyc department store sells over 10,000 different ornament designs annually since the 1920s