bauble

Meanings

1. A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
2. Anything trivial and worthless.
3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
4. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

Etymology

From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).