Is it right that you should be able to buy your way in, tchotchke by tchotchke?
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Tchotchke A small decorative item (often breakable; usually dust-collecting) Extra credit: In Yiddish, tchotchke usually refers to a doll.
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Every damn Etsy tchotchke I was considering for the nursery.
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A dog that goes crazy, a tchotchke that suddenly speaks.
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They open the vault only to discovery a little tchotchke, no money.
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It's the perfect rustic-slash-tropical tchotchke you've been looking for: a decorative driftwood pineapple.
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Maybe it was your favorite travel sweater, or a tchotchke you bought for your mom.
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But this summer will see another tchotchke to commemorate the indelible 2016 presidential campaign, and it's fantastic.
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As far as aesthetics go, Venus in Cancer is a tchotchke collector, because everything has sentimental value.
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Or when she starts dancing in the house and starts being really goofy, and she breaks the tchotchke.
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The audience member who offers the winning phrase match gets a tchotchke-style prize like a beer cozy.
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IDO3D is, ultimately, an affordable tchotchke-and-clone creating diversion that might teach a future dentist a thing or two.
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On Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Thursday night, Macklemore joked that the painting isn't just an ironic tchotchke.
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Using Times Square tchotchke shops as a barometer, the two-year-old tower is already nearing the apotheosis of kitsch.
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"It could be clothing he wore, music that he listened to, a tchotchke that he collected," Winter writes on Kickstarter.
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Unlike the campaign tchotchke, however, those data analytics and targeting tools could actually be useful to future national and state campaigns.
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Williams's objects, which might recall something found around the house — a handbag or a tchotchke — have been transformed into something talismanic, strange, and inviting.
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Noted On a recent morning, the Broadway set designer David Korins gave a tour of his tchotchke-filled studio near Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.
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The company also wants the profits from all the alleged rip-off stores, claiming they're committing trademark infringement with every Grumpy tchotchke they sell.
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The gap between that crowdfunded tchotchke and my own desperation-tinged investment in the well-being of the real woman it represented felt almost unbearable.
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You can spruce up any plain pillow, chair or spare tchotchke with one gifting essential that you're bound to have lying around the house: ribbon.
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It turns out that Mr. Trump's message of outright defiance — against Democrats, against the news media and, often, against facts — can exist in tchotchke form.
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STEM gifts for the kids, podcast tools, something for the frequent flyer in your life or maybe a little tchotchke just for you (we won't tell).
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Searching for companionship, he floats (still inverted) through a colorful seaside village, but the screeching seagulls, busy fishermen and tchotchke-toting tourists pay him no mind.
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But perhaps the most interesting part of Lively's ensemble was the Christian Louboutin Paloma handbag she carried, embellished with tchotchke charms fit for the most '90s of girls.
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In the age of Dropbox and Google Drive, the USB stick has come to seem like a dusty tchotchke that belongs in the drawer with your iPhone 4 cables.
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We went into the studio where we were going to shoot it, and there was the real set with every throw pillow and tchotchke just as it had been.
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She offers me a bowl of wrinkled red jujubes, then settles into a padded arm chair in the middle of her tchotchke-filled living room and regales me with stories.
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In the emerging designer and ceramic tchotchke section, the clothes are huddled together so tightly that it's hard to disentangle the Sandy Liang tech-tulle from the Saks Potts patchwork mink.
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The result is the AC3900, a shorter, smaller device that can hide in your home (as long as it's near an electrical outlet) or sit out as a high-design techno-tchotchke.
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Enterprising folks have rushed to the patent and trademark office with their Trump slogans (both pro and con), and they're plastering them on every knick-knack, coffee mug, and tchotchke they can find.
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There are no high-rise hotels, no strip malls filled with T-shirt and tchotchke shops, no barking beach vendors asking to braid your hair or sell you a drink in a coconut.
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Its leader, Dice, gives her a new name and she embraces asceticism, learning to herd sheep and work the land, and thinking with pity of her mother, back in their tchotchke-filled house.
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So they made up a list of people that someone might someday want to cold-call, or send a weird tchotchke to out of the blue, complete with the place you can send it.
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The ceremony was the culmination of a romance involving thousands of miles of air travel, a deck of index cards and a secret-society tchotchke drawn from the stash of a museum-store gift shop.
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Its solitary setting, their mother's tchotchke-filled Southern California bungalow, deteriorates along with the brothers' psychological mooring, and the rehearsal set looked as if it had been turned upside down and shaken for loose change.
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Retail stretches of hair salons and dry cleaners at area-appropriate price points begin to give way to the Four Riders of the Gentrification Apocalypse: bike shops, yoga studios, artisanal tchotchke stores, and third-wave coffee.
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The oversized SkyMall tchotchke is intended as a gesture of Franco-American solidarity following last year's terrorist attacks in the French capital (the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the attacks of November 13, 2015, including at the Bataclan concert hall).
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In the center of town, the courthouse — a beautiful historic building — presided over Main Street, and on the other side of the Walhonding River, tourists milled around Roscoe Village, a restored 19th-century town complete with historic reenactments, museums, and tchotchke shops.
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Jack Black stars as Jan Lewan, an upbeat Polish immigrant who assembles a polka band, starts a tchotchke store, marries former small-time beauty queen Marla (Obvious Child's Jenny Slate), and works odd jobs, trying to amass the money to build himself a small empire.
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Set in a small town in Idaho — the regular stamping grounds of Mr. Hunter, author of "The Whale" and "The Few" — the play, directed sensitively by Stella Powell-Jones, unfolds in the clean but tchotchke-cluttered living room of the deceased woman, Zoe, an obsessive TV shopper.
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From furry tails at Versace to Kigurumi-style characters at Fendi, a vagabond's accumulated souvenirs at Prada (worn not just on the tote but also the neck, the belt, anywhere a tchotchke can dangle), and leather tassels at Tod's, the trend for accessory individualization has hit new heights.
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Stacked shelves of touristic tchotchke objects, often with phallic or yonic associations (the 'idols'), are tethered to lit neon tubing spelling out euphemisms for female genitalia — poke hole, spare tongue, yoni, alcachofa, among dozens of others — culled from "African, Creole, Cajun, Ebonics, and hip-hop dialects," according to the gallery's text.
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Stacked two by two, Lego-like, the containers make a modest low-slung one-bedroom dwelling that Mr. Fisk has decorated with homespun touches like a leather Eames lounge chair, a tchotchke shelf over the narrow staircase, folk art on the plywood-clad walls, a rag rug, skylights and hanging plants in macramé slings.
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He describes how we all modulate our outside environment and our private spaces: Someone who lives on a farm, for example, may want to pump up a home's visual volume, whereas a person living in Manhattan may find that a tchotchke-free home with a white palette helps to create a feeling of equilibrium.
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Going beyond the social media-friendly tchotchke, we've decided to take a look back at the artists and innovators who explored the technology and aesthetics of levitation so that Air Bonsai could shatter it's $80,000 Kickstarter goal, enter mass production heaven, and inevitably become the next great cubicle decoration for the coworker you don't know well enough to get creative with.
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Every new technology gets a smirking remark that calls attention to how little the human experience has changed, every new wonder quickly blends into the scenery, and every new Great Work is just some fucking tchotchke that you have to find room for in your national curio cabinet so that people can come from around the world to gawk at it.
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They can also be sold as cheap souvenirs in tourist areas, which are sometimes called "tchotchke shops".
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Depending on context, the term has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness."Inside the Bernie Madoff Tchotchke Auction" , Gawker A common confusion is between the terms tchotchke and tsatske or rather tsatskele, with the diminutive ending -le. Both terms have the same Slavic root, but the tch- version stems from Russian, while the ts- originates in Polish. Tchotchke usually references trinkets, while tsatskele is more likely to mean a young girl or woman who uses her charms in order to reach her goals.
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The word tchotchke derives from a Slavic word for "trinket" ( ; , plural ; J. Kačala et al.: Short Dictionary of Slovak Language. Veda, 2003. (meaning: cheap decorative thing, trinket) ; ; ), adapted to Yiddish singular .
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A cabinet of tchotchkes and memorabilia behind the counter at Shopsin's in the Essex Street Market in New York City A tchotchke ( )Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press, tchotchke : /ˈtʃɒtʃkə/ is a small bauble or miscellaneous item. The word has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. It is Slavic in origin. The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar commercial events.
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He was given the name Tchotchke Kaputnik by Peggy Ford, one of Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey's earliest female clowns. Ms. Ford and master clown Jeff Raz shaped Tchotchke into a workable act. After one year of training he began performing with the New Pickle Circus under the direction of Gypsy Snider and Shana Carroll two alums of the original Pickle Family Circus and Cirque Du Soleil. They had been creating a new kind of theatrical circus with their troupe Les 7 Doigts de la Main and were taking the Pickles in a new direction with their show Circumstance.
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Retrieved March 1, 2020. After her move to New York in 1993, Agee turned to smaller-scale work. This work includes porcelain, tchotchke-like objects, styled with chinoiserie patterns of birds, flowers and butterflies, which on closer inspection are revealed to be sex toys.Nahas, Dominique.
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The chastened couple flies to Bhutan and returns the $10 million tchotchke to the orphanage, run by Buddhist monk Chana Dorje (Kee Chan) and they finally get their wish—they adopt a young boy, Kuenphay (Forrest Wheeler). They couldn't be happier. Well, maybe they could—if they had a house.
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Coso or its diminutive cosito (thing) is used for a generic physical object, usually replacing a noun when the speaker does not remember its name (i.e. Pasame el coso ese que está en la mesa, Hand me that thing on the table). Also chirimbolo (trinket, tchotchke), pendorcho (small object). Comosellame (what's-it-called) is also used.
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Being Yiddish, the meaning can change by the use of gestures and a change in tone, so that tsatskele can become the favorite child. Leo Rosten, author of The Joys of Yiddish, combines the two main meanings and gives an alternative sense of tchotchke as meaning a desirable young girl, a "pretty young thing". Less flatteringly, the term could be construed as a more dismissive synonym for "bimbo", or "slut". Illustrated, reprint edition.
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Violet Chachki on stage in Copenhagen Dardo began performing in drag as Violet Chachki at the age of 19. The name "Violet" was inspired by Jennifer Tilly's character in the film Bound, while "Chachki" is a variant of the Yiddish word tchotchke, a small object that is decorative rather than functional. Violet first performed at the bar LeBuzz in Marietta, Georgia. They used a fake ID to perform in local drag shows, eventually winning Miss New Faces at Friends on Ponce in Atlanta.
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The film received a 40 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Nick Shager of Slant Magazine gave the movie one star out of four, calling it pretentious and "just about insufferable," and David Fear of Time Out called it "the cinematic equivalent of a rock-garden tchotchke sold as exotica to tourists." Megane has also achieved the status of art film and has been featured in various museum presentations, including at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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This led to the apparent surprise and amusement of O'Brien, the audience, and even Thorne-Smith. This interview was selected as a top moment from Late Night in several compilation episodes and specials. David Kronke of the Los Angeles Times referred to the film as "a standard-issue rags-to-riches plot, enlivened by only by a tchotchke-heavy production design that might engage those entranced by bright, shiny objects", and compared the film to "Good Burger, but with French tickler jokes." Comedian and former Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Michael J. Nelson named the film the fifth worst comedy ever made.
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