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 Translation for 'bric à brac' from English to Russian
unverified безделушки {мн}bric-à-brac {sg}
Partial Matches
[неопределённый артикль перед согласными, перед eu и перед u, когда u произносится как [juː], как правило, не переводится]a
некий {pron}a certain
немного {adv}a bit
оруж.
атомная бомба {ж}
A-bomb
немногоa little
несколькоa few
многоa lot
unverified чувствоватьto have a feeling
выполнить обещаниеto keep a promise
unverified оттягиваться (веселиться)to have a ball
unverified держаться избранного путиto keep a way
хранить тайнуto keep a secret
поболтать [сов.]to have a chat
unverified попытатьсяto have a try
unverified записать сообщениеto take a message
вдохнутьto take a breath
взглянуть [сов.]to take a look
упасть [сов.]to have a fall
отдохнуть [сов.] [в отпуске]to have a holiday
прогуляться [сов.]to take a stroll
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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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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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