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gimcrack
Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick.
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[…] he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May-day.
To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.
To embellish with gimcracks.