bauble

From Old French baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔːbəɫ]
• (Scots) IPA^(key): [ˈbɒbəɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɔːbəl
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔbəl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑbəl/

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bauble (plural baubles)

1. A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
   • Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Chapter 8

     as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.

2. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

• (showy ornament): See also: Thesaurus:trinket

• bauble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bauble in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• bubale