[f. TRINKET sb.1 + -RY, after jewelry.] Trinkets collectively; articles of personal decoration or of ornament viewed as trinkets or toys. Also fig.
1810. Southey, Kehama, XIII. xiii. Ear-drop, nor chain, nor arm, nor ankle-ring, Nor trinketry on front, or neck, or breast.
1839–40. W. Irving, Wolfert’s R. (1855), 205. In those days there were no country stores in those parts, with their artificial finery and trinketry.
1892. Critic, 23 Jan., 47/2. Plain, entirely accurate, not unmusical prose, unencumbered with the trickery and trinketry required by verse.
1911. F. N. Streatfeild, Remin., xiii. 147. A General, with much trinketry on his manly bosom.
