Word: trinket
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...good-luck hairpiece for some 250 years, believe to be a genuine yeti remain. To get the scalp, Hillary had to do some sharp bargaining with local witch doctors, who feared that disaster might strike if the scalp were taken from their domain. In the end, he got the trinket on a month's loan by promising a donation to a village shrine, guaranteeing an education for a local lad and agreeing that a village elder could accompany the scalp to Chicago, where it will be examined by scientists...
Diced Brontosaurus bones are now available at the Peabody Museum trinket store. Although to the uninitiated or the unromantic these items look like ordinary chicken bones, the museum is also offering fossil crocodile scute, horse bones, and sharks' teeth...
...ever-increasing number of motorists are becoming thoroughly fed up with the overweighted, undersprung, swerving, swaying, tire-screeching, chrome-splashed, trinket-laden, gas-eating monsters that Detroit has been forcing upon the American public...
...Brady earned his nickname with Tiffany diamonds, and an admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany's to buy a trinket for his wife, saw a 60-carat diamond pendant he liked, wrote out a check for $91,000 and strolled out with his gift...
...Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce gave the Duke of Edinburgh a trinket for his son Prince Charles: a set of bagpipes, one-third normal size, whose "effect is, to a Scotsman, most musical and quite inspiring...