_________The word gewgaw has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 16 in “New York’s Lost Department Stores” by Vanessa Friedman:On Saturday, Henri Bendel, the department store whose brown and white stripes once defined the concept of the boutique as a carnival of gewgaws and glamour, will shut its doors for the last time. It has been a slow farewell, 24 stores blinking out like fireflies since the start of the year, culminating with the shuttering of the New York flagship this week. (The website will stay open until Jan.

Source: New York Times November 04, 2019 07:01 UTC