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means Art, décor, or taste that goes for easy sentimentality and showy effect instead of genuine quality — think velvet paintings and garden gnomes.

from Borrowed straight from German 'kitsch,' which surfaced in 19th-century Munich art slang, likely tied to the verb 'kitschen' — to smear or throw together carelessly, as in scraping mud off a street. Some trace it instead to a German mangling of the English word 'sketch,' which art dealers used for cheap, quickly made paintings sold to tourists. Either way, it entered English in the early 20th century already carrying its sneer intact.