bauble

Meaning

Noun

• A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
• A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
• A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

Origin

• From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel, most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus.