Tuesday word: Clinquant
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Clinquant (adjective, noun)
clin·quant [kling-kuhnt]
adjective
1. glittering, especially with tinsel; decked with garish finery.
noun
2. imitation gold leaf; tinsel; false glitter.
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Origin: 1585–95; < Middle French: clinking, present participle of clinquer (< Dutch klinken to sound); -ant
Example Sentences
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.
From Project Gutenberg
Clinquant (adjective, noun)
clin·quant [kling-kuhnt]
adjective
1. glittering, especially with tinsel; decked with garish finery.
noun
2. imitation gold leaf; tinsel; false glitter.
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Origin: 1585–95; < Middle French: clinking, present participle of clinquer (< Dutch klinken to sound); -ant
Example Sentences
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
Anecdotes of Painting," says, "Lely supplied the want of taste with clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes, and embroidery, through meadows and purling streams.
From Project Gutenberg
She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.
From Project Gutenberg
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