Kickshaws

Such dinners they may pronounce as mere flummery and "kickshaws," but the partakers of them will not often endorse their opinion, nor desire to return to the antique fashions of 1773. ❋ Sophia Orne (1873)

Little "kickshaws" for Polly lay on the table before him, and a small fire burned in the grate, with a huge kettle thereon. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Sweets from broceded trays and kickshaws most elaborate. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“We are well enough now,” said Mowbray, “though we have had none of their d — — d kickshaws.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Because when you touch an honest bit of bread you never wipe your hands, but if you take one of these fine kickshaws you turn to your napkin at once, as if you were angry to find your fingers soiled.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

We dare not imagine the private agonies of his Lady, deprived, perhaps forever, of acquiring additional kickshaws and gauds on investors' nickels and dimes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I hate your kickshaws, though I keep a French cook for those who are not of my way of thinking. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook. ❋ Unknown (2004)

At dinner, the lady maintained the same ungracious indifference, never speaking but in whispers to her aunt; and as to the repast, it was made up of a parcel of kickshaws, contrived by a French cook, without one substantial article adapted to the satisfaction of an English appetite. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She lives in Leeson park with a grief and kickshaws, a lady of letters. ❋ Unknown (2003)

What with the gimcracks and kickshaws of Mozart and Bach and sundry other euterpean gents, we have not found leisure to give justice to your request. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

Some pigeons, Davy; a couple of short-legged hens; a joint of mutton; and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William ❋ Unknown (2002)

While they were bringing wine and kickshaws, thumps began to trot about by dozens. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And a new French cook, to devise fine kickshaws, and toys; ❋ Various (N/A)

The maid served a number of elegant kickshaws, and the grave serving-man who had superintended the dinner-table on the previous evening entered with a bottle of hock in a cradle and stealthily withdrew. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

There were some pretty little tiny kickshaws in the way of pine-apples, musk-melons, bananas, papaws, and custard-apples, and many other tropical fruits whose names I have forgotten. ❋ Various (N/A)

"'Tak' awa 'the kickshaws,' Fletcher, 'and bring us the cauf.'" ❋ Unknown (N/A)