"trashery" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: trasheries [plural]
Etymology: trash + -ery Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|trash|ery}} trash + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} trashery (countable and uncountable, plural trasheries)
  1. A collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: white trashery, white-trashery
    Sense id: en-trashery-en-noun-Yrxc1gAN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1813, Sir Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain, (Google search result at gutenberg.org)",
          "text": "Who comes in foreign trashery\nOf tinkling chain and spur,\nA walking haberdashery\nOf feathers, lace, and fur."
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        {
          "ref": "1859, John W. Burgon, The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman: A Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler, page 92",
          "text": "I took four sketches of the different head-dresses, all equally detestable, which I shall finish and bring to shew you how far superior the natural beauty of our own girls in their simple dresses is to the trashery of the French belles.",
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          "ref": "1969 June, Robert A. Flammang, “Communications”, in Journal of Economic Issues, volume 3, number 2, pages 217–18",
          "text": "But it is not altogether funny to visualize our libraries becoming trasheries, our Centers of Learning objects of public ridicule and our occupations irrelevant to the world that is coming to be.",
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          "ref": "1972 Jan. 3, Judith Crist, \"Movies,\" New York Magazine, p. 47 (Google preview)",
          "text": "So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . ."
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          "ref": "2000, Ed Sanders, America: A History in Verse, Volume 1, page 175",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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