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How a cheap lace became a word for gaudy

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High-end luxury completely eluded this linguistic origin. It specifically stemmed from highly cheap, incredibly poor-quality neck laces violently peddled at local patron saint fairs, permanently branding the word to describe intensely gaudy rubbish desperately attempting to look totally sophisticated.

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