tinsel
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kutoa brokadia hopealangalla
rihkama
tinanauha, hopeanauha
kaunistella
hopeoida
tinsel englanniksi
A shining fabric used for ornamental purposes.
A silk or wool fabric with gold or silver thread woven into it; brocade.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Jonson Cynthia's Revels); (..) The fourth, in watchet tinſell, is the kind, and truly benefique, (smallcaps).
A very thin, gauzelike cloth with gold or silver (or, later, copper) thread woven into it, or overlaid with thin metal plates.
(RQ:Howell Epistolae)
A thin, shiny foil for ornamental purposes which is of a material made of metal or resembling metal; especially, narrow glittering strips of such a material, often strung on to thread, and traditionally at Christmastime draped on trees, hung from balustrades or ceilings, or wrapped around objects as a decoration.
(RQ:Nashe Saffron-Walden)
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 2)
(RQ:Allingham China Governess)
Anything shining and gaudy; especially something superficially shiny and showy, or having a false lustre, and more pretty than valuable.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Dryden Aureng-zebe)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(RQ:Eliot Romola)
Of fabric: ornamented by being woven with gold or silver thread, or overlaid with thin metal plates; brocaded.
(RQ:Milton Comus)'', / (..) / By ''(w)''’s lovely hands, / And her ſon that rules the ſtrands, / By ''(w)'' tinſel-ſlipper’d feet; (..)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
Apparently beautiful and costly but having little value; superficially attractive; gaudy, showy, tawdry.
(quote-journal)&93;|date=24 December 1890|volume=46|page=306|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_DnLjqOjv0wC&pg=RA1-PA306|column=2|oclc=990012675|passage=Went to that magnificent Temple of Thalia, the New Olympic, and saw the bewitchingest Pauline, in the person of Winifred Emery, that ever I saw in the shammiest, stagiest, tawdriest, tinsellest, transparentest, most diaphanously theatrical comedy I ever saw in the absolute period of my Thespian existence.|footer=(small) use of the (glossary) form of ''tinsel''.
(quote-book)
To ornament (fabric, etc.) by weaving into it thread of gold, silver, or some other shiny material.
(RQ:Nashe Unfortunate Traveller)
(RQ:Herrick Hesperides)
To out (a place or something) with showy but cheap ornaments; to make gaudy.
(RQ:Pope Dunciad)
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
To give (something) a false or superficial attractiveness.
(quote-text)
To cause (someone) damage or loss; also, to impose a fine on (someone); to mulct.
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