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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; < German, derivative of kitschen to throw together (a work of art)

Related forms
kitsch·y, adjective
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World English Dictionary
kitsch (kɪtʃ)
 
—n
a.  tawdry, vulgarized, or pretentious art, literature, etc, usually with popular or sentimental appeal
 b.  (as modifier): a kitsch plaster bust of Beethoven
 
[C20: from German]
 
'kitschy
 
—adj

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Word Origin & History

kitsch
1926, from Ger., lit. "gaudy, trash," from dial. kitschen "to smear."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Cultural Dictionary
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.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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kitsch definition

[kɪtʃ]
  1. n.
    any form of entertainment—movies, books, plays—with enormous popular appeal. : This kitsch sells like mad in the big city.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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