clinquant
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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
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
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
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