clinquant
Example Sentences
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She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.
From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
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 The Surrender of Santiago An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898 by Frank Norris
To-day the French, All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, Shone down the English; and, to-morrow, they Made Britain India: every man that stood Show'd like a mine.
From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
My eyes rejoice in the shine of it; its clinquant sound is music in my ears.
From Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith
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 A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
