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kitsch

[kich]
–noun
something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.

Origin:
1925–30; < G, deriv. of kitschen to throw together (a work of art)


kitschy, adjective
kitsch   (kĭch)   
n.  
  1. Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch" (William H. Gass).
  2. An example or examples of kitsch.
adj.  Of, being, or characterized by kitsch: "The kitsch kitchen ... has aqua-and-white gingham curtains and rubber duck-yellow walls painted in a fried-egg motif" (Suzanne Cassidy).

[German, probably of dialectal origin.]
kitsch'i·fy' v., kitsch'y adj.

kitsch [(kich)]

Works of art and other objects (such as furniture) that are meant to look costly but actually are in poor taste.

Note: Kitsch in literature and music is associated with sentimentalism as well as bad taste.

kitsch 
1926, from Ger., lit. "gaudy, trash," from dial. kitschen "to smear."
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