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kitsch

  [kich]
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–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)

Related forms:
kitschy, adjective
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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.
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