clinquant

Example Sentences

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

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

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 Gough, George W.

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

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

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

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard