Too thin possibly, for on arrival home one morning from what she called her marketing, the little gewgaw, valued for ornament and use alike, was gone.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
The Gray Phantom is the only man I know who would pass up some fifty thousand dollars' worth of diamonds after taking the trouble to steal a gewgaw worth about two bits."
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
When she gave me this gewgaw," added he, flourishing the purse in his hand, "she told me a pretty tissue about a fair friend of hers, whose music-master, mistaking some condescension on her part, had dared to press her snowy fingers while directing them towards a tender chord on her harp.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter