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clinquant

/ˈklɪŋkənt/

clinquant adjective: glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.

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)...

Noun

clinquant (uncountable)

  1. Dutch metal.
  2. Tinsel; glitter.
    • 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,1806 [a. 1681], Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, 3rd edition, volume 2, Longman, Hurst, Bees, and Orme, published 1810, page 177
    • Lely supplied the want of taste with clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes and embroidery through meadows and purling streams.1762, George Vertue, Horace Walpole, Some Anecdotes of Painting in England, volume 2, published 1849, page 442

clinquant meaning in Tamil

clinquant in Tamil

மின்னும், பளபளக்கும், சரிகை நூல் கொண்ட

Forms of clinquant

comparativemore clinquant
superlativemost clinquant

Origin of clinquant

From French clinquant, from clinquer (“to clink”).

Questions about clinquant

What does clinquant mean?
Clinquant means glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
What is clinquant in Tamil?
Clinquant in Tamil is மின்னும், பளபளக்கும், சரிகை நூல் கொண்ட. See Clinquant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is clinquant?
Clinquant can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce clinquant?
Clinquant is pronounced /ˈklɪŋkənt/.

Words near clinquant in the dictionary

  1. clinotyrolite
  2. clinoungemachite
  3. clinozoisite
  4. clinozoisites
  5. clinprost
  6. clinquant
  7. clint
  8. Clint cum Hamlets
  9. Clintasha
  10. Clinton
  11. Clinton County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clinquant (page history and authors); clinquant (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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