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bibelot

[bib-loh; Fr. beeb^uh-loh]

Origin

noun, plural -lots

[-lohz; Fr. -loh] .

a small object of curiosity, beauty, or rarity.

Origin:
1870–75; < French, equivalent to bibel- (expressive formation akin to bauble) + -ot noun suffix

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bibelot (ˈbɪbləʊ, French biblo)

—n
1.	an attractive or curious trinket
2.	a miniature book

[C19: from French, from Old French beubelet, perhaps from a reduplication of bel beautiful]

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bibelot

"small curio," 1873, from Fr. bibelot "knicknack," from O.Fr. beubelet "trinket, jewel" (12c.), from belbel "plaything," a reduplication of bel "pretty."

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