Translation for '
bric à brac' from English to Russian
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Usage Examples English
- The pots have become collectibles similar to bric-à-brac.
- Downtown also features the historic State National Bank building (built in 1926), several coffeeshops and eateries, an art gallery, several" bric-à-brac "outlets, and many brick-faced storefronts of historical interest.
- Bric-à-brac (...) or bric-a-brac (from French), first used in the Victorian era, around 1840, refers to lesser objets d'art forming collections of curios.
- Betti's fourth album, "Bric à brac", was released in the summer of 2005. It peaked at number 20 on the French albums chart.
- is a small bric-à-brac or miscellaneous item. The word has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere.
- Many church bazaars held "white elephant sales" where donors could unload unwanted bric-à-brac, generating profit from the phenomenon that "one man’s trash is another man’s treasure" and the term has continued to be used in this context.
- Tetbury is renowned for its antique and bric-à-brac shops; "Homes & Antiques" magazine named Long Street one of the UK's top 10 favourite streets for shopping in December 2018.
- These are simple shadow boxes, usually fronted with a glass pane, in which he arranged eclectic fragments of photographs or Victorian bric-a-brac, in a way that combines the formal austerity of Constructivism with the lively fantasy of Surrealism.
- Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays have a general market, Tuesdays an antiques market and Thursdays a sale of bric-a-brac.
- Homes are described as gloomy, dark, cluttered with massive and over-ornate furniture and proliferating bric-a-brac.
- After the First World War, Pre-Raphaelite art was devalued for its literary qualities and was scorned by critics as sentimental and concocted "artistic bric-a-brac".
- All the fashionable bric-a-brac." A penis ("the missing parts of Sir Winston Churchill") is held aloft in the climactic scene.
- Walt Disney handpicked much of the Victorian bric-a-brac in New Orleans antique stores.
- The markets contain a mixture of new and second-hand clothing, bric-a-brac, jewellery, and food-and-drink stands.
- Both stores sell predominantly furniture and white goods but include smaller concessions of clothes, bric-a-brac, books and music.
- The Oxfam shop sold Chinese bric-a-brac that had been sourced from Chinese refugees that had escaped the Communist revolution to Hong Kong.
- Deptford Market (also known as Deptford High Street Market) is a fruit & vegetable and antiques and bric-a-brac market located in Deptford, south east London.
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