True, they were merely paste and trinketry, but I added a silver coin to comfort him when he discovers they are worthless."

It was a typical piece of Trinketry, he thought to himself, to have made the mistake of calling Cao Cao an emperor.

He avoided the Lanes, that warren of alleyways linked by 'twittens', narrow passageways, and 'cat creeps', flights of connecting staircases, a roguish rip-off in his opinion, where antique shops sold junk, and jewellers, trinketry.

They are the more detestable for having temporarily lost their reason for existence: that is to say, shops full of a disastrous religious trinketry no longer have any customers to sell it to, and whole street-fuls of hotels and pensions are all of them closed until the following spring, making parts of the town seem gloomily abandoned.