firulete

A superfluous and tasteless ornament or decoration.; Any of the four diacritical marks that are used in Spanish: the acute accent, diaeresis, tilde, and tittle.

“—¿Qué es un firulete? —¡Pedigüeñería tiene el punto de la primera «i», los dos puntos de la «ü», el sombrero de la «ñ» y la tilde de la «í» final! ¡Eso son firuletes!” — —What’s a firulete? —Pedigüeñería has the dot on the first “i”, the two dots on the “ü”, the hat on the “ñ” and the tilde on the final “í”! Those are firuletes!

Borrowed from Old Galician-Portuguese *ferolete, metathesized from *felorete, variant of florete.