bric-a-brac vs refuse

bric-a-brac

noun
  • Any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items; a hodgepodge, an olio. 

  • Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value. 

refuse

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

verb
  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

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