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clinquant

[ kling-kuhnt ]

adjective

  1. glittering, especially with tinsel; decked with garish finery.


noun

  1. imitation gold leaf; tinsel; false glitter.

clinquant

/ ˈ°ì±ôɪŋ°ìÉ™²Ô³Ù /

adjective

  1. glittering, esp with tinsel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. tinsel or imitation gold leaf
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of clinquant1

1585–95; < Middle French: clinking, present participle of clinquer (< Dutch klinken to sound); -ant
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of clinquant1

C16: from French, from clinquer to clink, from Dutch klinken, of imitative origin
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Descartes has almost entirely discarded this quaintness, which sometimes passed into what is called in French clinquant, that is to say, tawdry and grotesque ornament.

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Come here, Stephanie, and see a miracle of manhood, that could resist all the clinquant of a hussar for the simple costume of the � cole Militaire.

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The General and the generals went in and crowded the hall of audience, very clinquant with its black and white floor, glass chandeliers, long mirrors and single gilded center table.

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Anecdotes of Painting," says, "Lely supplied the want of taste with clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes, and embroidery, through meadows and purling streams.

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She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.

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