What is "knickknackery"

Usage examples of "knickknackery".

A fair, it was, with puppet shows and stalls of produce and horses and sheep penned right in the street for sale or trade or auction, and other stalls of bright-colored knickknackery, desirable, and because his father was gay, almost possessable.

The staircase led to a hall lined with shelves and cases, each one loaded with the accumulated knickknackery of generations of Jentesi Lords, and here Lyeth found the three delegates from the Merchants Guild standing before a case of intricately woven ceremonial baskets and talking quietly among themselves.

The girl was enjoying every bit of it: the Arab-style house with its open courtyards, the European knickknackery, Moreau in his bare henna-stained feet and gandourah, Madame in her medieval getup, the two old birds cracking their bones as they lowered themselves into their chairs, the massive Georgian silver candelabra assisted by a naked electric light bulb on a fraying wire overhead, and the Greek-Italian beauty picking his nose delicately behind the cover of his napkin.