tinsel
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"If you think about it, these tinsels are 20 to 30 years old and they're still intact," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
We sparked it off by going to Hollywood peeped the tinsels skated the spots hit the sun set strip and the blvd and the walk of stars.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was unpopular with the crowd, because austere and taciturn; he would not wear the pomps and tinsels, or swagger it in public to their taste.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
But for these Baüls this idea is direct and simple, full of the dignified beauty of truth, which shuns all tinsels of ornament.
From Creative Unity by Tagore, Rabindranath
Now! let no fouling touch profane her clay, Nor odious pomps and funeral tinsels mar Our grief.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
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