Definition of Tinsel

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Tinsel

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.

Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.

Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.

To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.

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Tinsel Quotations

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Oscar Levant

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
Robert Musil

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
George Byron

Tinsel Translations

tinsel in German is flittern, Lametta
tinsel in Swedish is glitter

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