bric-a-brac /ˈbɹɪkəbɹæk/ noun[before a noun]2 •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 •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 formsbric-a-bracs · bric-à-bracs