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Clinquant

//ˈklɪŋkənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.

    "Today the French, / All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, / Shone down the English;"

Adjective
  1. 1
    glittering with gold or silver wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Dutch metal. uncountable
  2. 2
    Tinsel; glitter. uncountable

    "Harrison came that day in a scarlett coate and cloake, both laden with gold and silver lace, and the coate so cover'd with clinquant, that scarcely could one discerne the ground,"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French clinquant, from clinquer (“to clink”), from Dutch klinken (“to sound, ring, clink”), from Middle Dutch clinken, clingen, from Old Dutch *clingan, from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound, ring”). Cognate with German klingen (“to sound”).

Etymology 2

From French clinquant, from clinquer (“to clink”), from Dutch klinken (“to sound, ring, clink”), from Middle Dutch clinken, clingen, from Old Dutch *clingan, from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound, ring”). Cognate with German klingen (“to sound”).

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