clinquant

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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.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James

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 Saintsbury, George

My eyes rejoice in the shine of it; its clinquant sound is music in my ears.

From Trivia by Smith, Logan Pearsall

She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

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