It is generally used for all unwanted household bric-a-brac and practically all the detritus of modern civilization goes down its maw.
I am told that, if one goes into some charity shops, one does not see the traditional bric-a-brac or second-hand goods.
They offer a place where those people can purchase clothing, furniture, bric-a-brac or essential items at prices they can afford.
What we want are the impulses of youth to sweep away this constitutional bric-a-brac and start building a new society on sound economic lines.
And what have we been given, apart from a gathering of bric-a-brac from the past ingeniously packaged to give the impression of generosity?
It refers also to auctions of pictures, bric-a-brac, and that sort of thing.
Anybody may have them to save a sick person; and the remaining bric-a-brac and debris can be consigned to the crematorium.
The contents of these houses, and, indeed, much of the contents of our museums and galleries, are really the accumulation, the trophies and the bric-a-brac of that grandly acquisitive age.
