pacotille

French pacotille (“junk”)

pacotille (plural pacotilles)

1. (Trinidad and Tobago) Something of little or no value exchanged for something valuable, originally goods exchanged for slaves.

• Capetillo, pollicate

Probably borrowed from Spanish pacotilla, although the relatively recent attestation of the Spanish term makes this problematic.

pacotille f (plural pacotilles)

1. junk (cheap, tacky articles)

• “pacotille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.