trumpery /ˈtɹʌmpəɹi/noun 3adjective 1forms 1 noun3 •Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.PROSPERO.^([To Ariel]) / This was well done, my bird. / Thy shape invisible retain thou still: / The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither / For stale to catch these thieves. — 1610 •Nonsense.Now upon the coming of Christ, very much, tho' not all, of this idolatrous Trumpery and Superstition was driven out of the World: […] — 1698 •(no longer used) Deceit; fraud.In that case there is no need for me to write about the trumpery scandal by which I was the sufferer—the innocent sufferer, I positively assert. — 1859 adjective1 •Gaudy but worthless.I also remember the old Royal Mews that stood on the site of the present trumpery National Gallery, with its too suggestive pepper-boxes; […] — 1887 formstrumperies
