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KLIN-kawnt
adjective
glittering gold or silver
1828The Disowned For the after century it was reserved to restore what we may be permitted to call the spirit of our national literature; to forsake the clinquant of the French mimickers of classic gold; to exchange a thrice-adulterated Hippocrene for the pure well of Shakspeare and of Nature; to clothe philosophy in the gorgeous and solemn majesty of appropriate music; and to invest passion with a language as burning as its thought and rapid as its impulse.1982The One TreeThe light of midday gleamed, clinquant and refulgent, on every tree bough and swath of grass.Labels: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Stephen R. Donaldson
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