A traditional Quincallerie shop in Montlucon yesterday.
Quincallerie is one of my favourite French words .

Because the original kitchenware or hardware shops in France traded in goods in iron and steel and these articles tended to rattle (French clinquant.) Quincalleries (there I’ve used it again !) are one of the few places which can boast an onomatopoeic origin to the name of their metier,
– for non-french speakers it comes out as something like Kan-ki-ary.