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clinkant

clinkant is the alternative form of clinquant.

Meaning of clinquant

Adjective

clinquant (comparative more clinquant, superlative most clinquant)

  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;1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...

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Forms of clinkant

comparativemore clinkant
superlativemost clinkant

Questions about clinkant

What is clinkant the alternative form of?
Clinkant is the alternative form of clinquant.

Words near clinkant in the dictionary

  1. clinium
  2. cliniums
  3. clink
  4. clink-clanks
  5. clinkable
  6. clinkant
  7. clinked
  8. Clinkenbeard
  9. Clinkenbeards
  10. clinker
  11. clinker block

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clinkant (page history and authors); clinquant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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