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tinsel    音标拼音: [t'ɪnsəl]
n. 闪亮的金属片,金属丝,金属箔,俗丽的东西
a. 闪亮的,俗丽的

闪亮的金属片,金属丝,金属箔,俗丽的东西闪亮的,俗丽的

tinsel
n 1: a showy decoration that is basically valueless; "all the
tinsel of self-promotion"
2: a thread with glittering metal foil attached
v 1: impart a cheap brightness to; "his tinseled image of
Hollywood"
2: adorn with tinsel; "snow flakes tinseled the trees"
3: interweave with tinsel; "tinseled velvet"

Tinsel \Tin"sel\, n. [F. ['e]tincelle a spark, OF. estincelle,
L. scintilla. Cf. {Scintillate}, {Stencil}.]
1. 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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Who can discern the tinsel from the gold? --Dryden.
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2. Something shining and gaudy; something superficially
shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay
than valuable.
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O happy peasant! O unhappy bard!
His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward. --Cowper.
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Tinsel \Tin"sel\, a.
Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial. "Tinsel
trappings." --Milton.
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Tinsel \Tin"sel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tinseled}or {Tinselled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Tinseling} or {Tinselling}.]
To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy
ornaments; to make gaudy.
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She, tinseled o'er in robes of varying hues. --Pope.
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152 Moby Thesaurus words for "tinsel":
affected, apocryphal, apparent, artificial, assumed, bastard, bead,
bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, blatant, blink, blinking, bogus,
bravery, brazen, brummagem, cheat, chiffon, chintzy, clinquant,
colorable, colored, coruscate, coruscation, counterfeit,
counterfeited, diamond, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished,
embroidered, engrave, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fakement,
falsified, feather, feigned, festoons, fictitious, fictive, figure,
filigree, finery, firefly, flag, flashy, flounce, flower, folderol,
foofaraw, forgery, frame-up, fraud, frilliness, frilling, frills,
frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fuss, gaiety, garbled,
garish, garland, gaudery, gem, gilded, gilding, gilt, gingerbread,
glaring, glimmer, glimmering, glisk, glisten, glister, glitter,
glittering, glowworm, hoax, illegitimate, illuminate, imitation,
impostor, jewel, junk, junky, loud, make-believe, man-made,
meretricious, mock, ostensible, paint, paste, perverted, phony,
pinchbeck, plausible, plume, pretended, pseudo, put-on, put-up job,
quasi, queer, ribbon, rip-off, scintilla, scintillate,
scintillation, seeming, self-styled, sham, shimmer, shimmering,
shoddy, simulacrum, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spangle,
spark, sparkle, specious, spurious, stroboscopic light,
superfluity, supposititious, swindle, synthetic, tawdry, tin,
titivated, trappings, trickery, trumpery, twinkle, twinkling,
twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped,
whited sepulcher, wreathe


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