bauble

Etymology

From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).

noun

1. A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
   Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade. 1977, Jimmy Webb (lyrics and music), “Highwayman”
2. (figurative, by extension) Anything trivial and worthless.
   His hind quarters were likewise short, and not racinglike, and taken as a specimen of the horse, he was a mere bauble when looked at by the side of an English race-horse, much less a hunter. 1841, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 186
3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
4. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.