novelty
/ˈnɑvəlti/ adjective C2- In the design of a common household item, often impractically large, and meant primarily for display rather than functional use. · My novelty calculator works fine but it hurts my hands to press the keys.· The fundraisers presented us with an oversize novelty cheque.
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“Dead,—dead!” groaned forth Villefort, in a paroxysm of grief, which was the more terrible from the novelty of the sensation in the iron heart of that man.
He was as much awake to the novelty of attention in that quarter as Elizabeth herself could be, and unconsciously closed his book.
There was novelty in the scheme; and as, with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.
But Lady Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty to them.
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