Today's Word "clinquant"
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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