brick-a-brack

Noun

bric-a-brac (usually uncountable, plural bric-a-brac)

1. (also, attributive, usually) Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value.
   • The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Meditations at Versailles”, in The Paris Sketch Book, volume II, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, page 267

   Synonyms:

   brickety-brack, knick-knacks, novelty item, bauble, novelty, fandangle, fangle, fizgig, folderol, gewgaw

2. (also, attributive, broadly, usually) Any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items; a hodgepodge, an olio.
   • Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLIII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book V, page 13

   Synonyms:

   mishmash, oddments, curios, ornaments, baubles, bouillabaisse, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, rummage

   Antonyms:

   valuables, treasures