clinquant
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, all, gold
VERB + CLINQUANT
taste
CLINQUANT + NOUN
nymphs, trail
PREP.
in, with
ADV.
scarcely
Definitions
adj
Glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
Today the French, / All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, / Shone down the English;
noun
Dutch metal.
Tinsel; glitter.
Harrison came that day in a scarlett coate and cloake, both laden with gold and silver lace, and the coate so cover'd with clinquant, that scarcely could one discerne the ground,
Lely supplied the want of taste with clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes and embroidery through meadows and purling streams.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — glittering with gold or silver
- tinseled
- tinselly
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3Today the French, / All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, / Shone down the English;
WiktionaryHarrison came that day in a scarlett coate and cloake, both laden with gold and silver lace, and the coate so cover'd with clinquant, that scarcely could one discerne the ground,
WiktionaryLely supplied the want of taste with clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes and embroidery through meadows and purling streams.
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