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Today's Word "clinquant"

Glittering with gold or silver on

Published in Vocabulary

clinquant \KLING-kunt\ (adjective) - Glittering with gold or silver; tinseled.

(noun) - Tinsel; imitation gold leaf.

"Beaming, the lady held out a purse, heavy and all clinquant, as the man says, with gold." -- Kage Baker, 'The Garden of Iden'

 

Clinquant is from the French.


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