Crossword-Solution: BIBELOT 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The Sinclairs gave good dinners to perfectly selected guests, and by reason of this virtue, one not too common, the host and hostess might be pardoned for being a little too well satisfied with themselves and with their last new bibelot.

The father could not give them that; and then, too, he was so busy! A thousand irons in the fire: the Territorial Bank, the installation of the picture gallery, drives to Tattersall’s with Bois l’Hery, some _bibelot_ to inspect, here or there, at the houses of collectors indicated by Schwalbach, hours passed with trainers, jockeys, dealers in curiosities, the encumbered and multiple existence of a _bourgeois gentilhomme_ in modern Paris.

Alone and independent, she earned the affection of Madame Bibelot, the concierge, and, what was more, her confidence.

Meanwhile, in the shadow of this painfully growing celebrity as a novelist, Conrad takes on consideration as a bibelot, and the dealers in first editions probably make more profit out of some of his books than ever he has made himself.

But, of course, she was not really like a doll, nor remote from life; she was very real, living and animated; though she had for the connoisseur all the charm of an exquisite _bibelot_ that is not for sale.