'bauble' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a showy piece of jewelry or ornament, usually made of a bright and glittery material. You can use the word in formal or informal contexts. Here is an example sentence: The tree in the store window was decorated with colorful baubles.
The mark of having made it used to be a postage stamp, or maybe a bauble from a head of state.
Wangaratta: Cafe Derailleur (Melbourne to Wangaratta ~ 3 hours) Café Derailleur in Norton Street, Wangaratta is a quirky find on the ground floor of a bead and bauble shop in the old Railway Café building.
Rudi Völler standing in thoughtful meditation with his hands on his hips in the immediate aftermath of one of the most unjust dismissals in World Cup history, while over his right shoulder, his Dutch rival Frank Rijkaard looks to be inspecting the massive grolly he had just violently expectorated and left dangling from the back of the German striker's bubble perm like a Christmas tree bauble.
The friendly German waiter pointed out that the paper bauble was made in Japan.
When he makes one of his more blatant U-turns, he invariably mollifies the left by giving them some symbolic ideological bauble to play with.
This does not necessarily rule out property rights; but it does mean avoiding the temptation to treat everything as if it were a physical bauble in which only a single owner had an interest.
This month it narrowly missed winning British architecture's most important bauble, the Stirling prize.
In recompense, he invited her to take some bauble from State House, but instead Mrs Chiluba tried to sue him for $400m her share of the riches he had allegedly stolen during a decade in power.
Liverpudlians can still claim to belong to the greatest football city in the country, and perhaps the whole of Europe: Liverpool have won the Champions League, the continent's most glittering bauble, more times than United, and the city's second biggest club, Everton, have a grander history than City.
The spirit of the two versions, though, is quite different: here, Cinderella's tree is conjured out of a mannequin, Jack's golden-egg-laying hen is a feather duster and Christmas-tree bauble, and Little Red is menaced by a mounted wolf's head.
Real power for the first time in the better part of a century is no small bauble.
