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