Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bauble

Bauble (ba"b'l) , noun

[Compare Old French baubel a child's plaything, French babiole, Italian babbola, Late Latin baubellum gem, jewel, Latin babulus, a baburrus, foolish.]

1.
A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. — Sheridan
2.
The fool's club. [Obsolete]
A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it. — Nares