baubles

Noun

bauble (plural baubles)

1. A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
   • […] 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.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter 8, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for...
2. (broadly, figuratively) Anything trivial and worthless.
   • His hind quarters were likewise short, and not racinglike, and taken as a specimen of the horse, he was a mere bauble when looked at by the side of an English race-horse, much less a hunter.1841, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 186
3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
   • Harry dreamed he was back in the D.A. room. Cho was accusing him of luring him there under false pretenses; she said that he had promised her a hundred and fifty Chocolate Frog cards if she showed up. Harry protested....Cho shouted, "Cedric gave me loads of Chocolate Frog cards, look!" And she...2003, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Scholastic Press, page 462
4. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.