The phrase "a novelty called" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing or describing a new or unique item, concept, or idea by its name.
Example: "There is a novelty called the 'smart mug' that keeps your drink at the perfect temperature."
Alternatives: "a creation known as" or "an invention referred to as".
A recent addition to the menu at Lazar's is a novelty called the Wish Bar.
At a recent Baptist convention in Kalamazoo, Mich, one of the ministers introduced a novelty called Prayermeeting Dice.
By Nick Paumgarten Last month, on the eve of the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament, Bloomsbury published a novelty called "The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything".
She became one of America's best-known popular singers in 1951 with a novelty called "Come-on-a-My House," and followed that with other novelties like "Botcha-Me," "Mambo Italiano," and "This Old House".
Becoming an au pair girl for a couple involved in opera, she managed to worm her way into a Parisian drama school, her English accent being her novelty calling card.
In 1960 he reached No. 30 on the Billboard chart with a novelty song called "The Madison Time," rushed into production to capitalize on a dance craze.
During the 18-minute first intermission last night, the fans at the Devils-Carolina game were entertained by a novelty act called Quick Change.
The press of a wall button again brought his voice into the room, singing a novelty number called, "Zat You, Santa Claus?" with lines like "I can see old/ Santa in the keyhole".
Before long, thrill-seeking youths were scaling the rocky heights, armed with diaries and easels to record their impressions; and by the 1890s, the limber and intrepid had taken up a novelty sport called downhill skiing.
The playbill advertises "10 Big Acts 10," including Major Bowes's amateur show, a tango contest in the ballroom, a juvenile variety show in the theater, a world-renowned puppet act and a novelty act called the Del Rio Midgets.
In 1984, soon after he'd spent 43 days in rehab at the Betty Ford clinic in California, Cash recorded a novelty song called Chicken in Black with famed country music producer Billy Sherrill, practitioner of a slicker, poppier sound dubbed "countrypolitan".
