pacotille
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
pacotille (plural pacotilles)
- (Trinidad and Tobago) Something of little or no value exchanged for something valuable, originally goods exchanged for slaves.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from Spanish pacotilla, although the relatively recent attestation of the Spanish term makes this problematic.
Noun edit
pacotille f (plural pacotilles)
- junk (cheap, tacky articles)
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Further reading edit
- “pacotille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.