trumpery in English

noun
1
attractive articles of little value or use.
All along the extent of the corridor, in little alcoves, there are stalls of shops, kept principally by women, who, as you approach, are seen through the dusk offering for sale… multifarious trumpery .
adjective
1
showy but worthless.
trumpery jewelry
noun

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2. A superb disorder of trumpery Brummagem cutlery, stuffs, firearms and pots and pans clutter the ground in every direction

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4. Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed Contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.