gimcrack

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[onlybeforenoun] (rare) badly made and of little value: The place had a certain gimcrack theatrical glamour.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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gimcrackEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus gimcrackEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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