clinquant
Example Sentences
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I liked Jack, but not clinquant in crimson and gold, with spurs and sword clanking on the hard, frost-bitten road.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
Anecdotes of Painting," says, "Lely supplied the want of taste with clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes, and embroidery, through meadows and purling streams.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
My eyes rejoice in the shine of it; its clinquant sound is music in my ears.
From Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith
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
