clinquant

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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 Norris, Frank

The clinquant corslet of the Swiss girl just survives at bals costum�s.

From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

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

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

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 Shakespeare, William

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