bric-a-brac vs trinket

bric-a-brac

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

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

trinket

noun
  • A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry 

  • A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy. 

  • A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. 

How often have the words bric-a-brac and trinket occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )