bauble

Baubles are small, glittering thin metal - plastic chips that are used and mostly as a decoration and / or eye-catching particles or flakes.

In a figurative sense, flitter denotes anything that shimmers without meaning . B. tinsel, shiny, but fake and worthless jewelry.

history

They were originally made from gold and silver sheet or from tinsel and are said to have come first from the French gold and silver factories , but at the beginning of the 18th century they were especially imitated in Nuremberg . They were knocked out of the tin with the so-called tinsel stamp and usually represented leaves, flowers, suns, stars and the like. Later, wire tinsel made of flattened wire rings - small, circular discs with a hole in the middle, see sequins .

See also

• Honeymoon evening , game show with Michael Schanze and Bobby Flitter

Web links

Wiktionary: Flitter  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations