Traditionally, the Christmas trees are decorated with glass baubles, garlands and many homemade ornaments including painted eggshells, shiny red apples, walnuts, wrapped chocolate shapes, candles, etc.

Hanging from the ceiling, thousands of shimmering Venetian glass baubles, said to have cost $500,000, remind you that you are in the world capital of wretched excess.

Yar, that'll do for her, and this glass bauble as well, I reckon, until the party's over tomorrow.

The tree tips down, falling in the middle of the sitting-room, glass baubles smashing everywhere.

The faceted glass baubles, some worth as little as a quarter of a penny, have been taken by the million from at least four jewelry factories since late August.

Although glass baubles are still produced, baubles are now frequently made from plastic and available worldwide in a huge variety of shapes, colors and designs.

There's a kind of provincial attitude out there what wants spectacle... they are aesthetic barbarians, fascinated by glass baubles.

After all, why would anyone think that he, of all the boys at Carson, would want to steal a glass bauble?

She wore a batik sari of red, gold, black and brown, a pair of absurd red sandals with green glass baubles.

'What does it profit a boy to gain a glass bauble if he loses the world?'