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Clinquant   Listen
noun
Clinquant  n.  Tinsel; Dutch gold.






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"Clinquant" Quotes from Famous Books



... days were designed by class-hatred, or hatred of race, are dying, very surely dying. The costermonger with his pearl-emblazoned coat has been driven even from that Variety Stage, whereon he sought a desperate sanctuary. The clinquant corslet of the Swiss girl just survives at bals costumes. I am told that the kilt is now confined entirely to certain of the soldiery and to a small cult of Scotch Archaicists. I have seen men flock from the boulevards of one ...
— The Works of Max Beerbohm • Max Beerbohm



Words linked to "Clinquant" :   tinselly, tinseled, adorned, decorated



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