trinketize
English
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[edit]trinketize (third-person singular simple present trinketizes, present participle trinketizing, simple past and past participle trinketized)
- (transitive) To reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.
- 1995, M. Joseph Sirgy, A. Coskun Samli, New Dimensions in Marketing/Quality-Of-Life Research, page 306:
- Likewise, mass production of local arts and crafts to produce volumes of souvenirs for tourists can trinketize indigenous craftsmanship.
- 2002, William E. Leuchtenburg, American Places: Encounters With History, page 63:
- One of these is the all-out effort to commodify and market that threatens to trinketize and trivialize the World War II experience.
- 2005, Virginia Tilley, Seeing Indians: A Study of Race, Nation, And Power in El Salvador, page 46:
- For the tourist, Indianness is trinketized as turquoise jewelry or prayer circles strung with feathers and shells, suggesting something earthy, exotic, mysterious […]