clinquant
Example Sentences
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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.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
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
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
She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.
From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
My eyes rejoice in the shine of it; its clinquant sound is music in my ears.
From Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith
