Sell junk, junk erudition, producing works of art are nothing but junk, luxury junk ... Where is this word that we hear so often used?
it probably derives from the English pacotilla (from paquete , perhaps from French paquet ), although it seems attested in English only at the end of the eighteenth sec. Designate, in origin, the tax-free goods that had embarked the captain, crew or passengers of a ship in order to have trade staff in the colonial markets of distant lands ( "pacotilles pour objet d'échanges avec les sauvages" , A. Daudet). So, metaphorically, the goods of poor quality, low value, vulgar, in bad taste, in art and literature works of little value, "trade", and the miscellany of everyday objects that filled the small or middle-class housing and the shops of junk dealers.
is worth remembering also that package (from Br., paquet or pacquet ), appears in Italian as a diminutive of pack (object or group of related objects or held together by a wrap), although it precedes, derived from the French paquet (from the pacque ) in turn from the Dutch pak (bale of wool?).
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