TINSEL
\tˈɪnsə͡l], \tˈɪnsəl], \t_ˈɪ_n_s_əl]\
Definitions of TINSEL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a thread with glittering metal foil attached
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interweave with tinsel; "tinseled velvet"
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adorn with tinsel; "snow flakes tinseled the trees"
By Princeton University
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a thread with glittering metal foil attached
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gaudy and showy but valueless; "trumpery ornaments"
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interweave with tinsel; "tinseled velvet"
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adorn with tinsel; "snow flakes tinseled the trees"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
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Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
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Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
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To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
By Oddity Software
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A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
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Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
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Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
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To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
By Noah Webster.
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A kind of gauzy cloth covered with gold and silver threads; thin, glittering, metallic material in strips or sheets, used for inexpensive but showy decoration; something cheap, showy, and gaudy.
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Showy to excess; cheap.
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To decorate with cheap imitation gold or silver trimming; make gaudy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Something sparkling or shining: a stuff for ornamental dresses consisting of cloth overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver: anything showy, of but little value: anything having a false lustre.
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Like tinsel: gaudy: superficial.
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To adorn with or as with tinsel: to make glittering or gaudy:-pr.p. tinselling; pa.t. and pa.p. tinselled.
By Daniel Lyons
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Like tinsel; gaudy.
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Strips of very thin metal, gilt or silvered, for ornamenting dresses, &c.; anything showy and unsubstantial.
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To adorn with tinsel.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Superficially brilliant.
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Very thin glittering bits of metal used for ornament.
By James Champlin Fernald
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