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▪ I. glitter, n.1|ˈglɪtə(r)|
[f. the vb.]
1. Glittering or sparkling light; brightness, brilliance, lustre, splendour. See also aglitter adv.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. i. ii, Tinsill glitter, or rich purfled robes..Are not the true adornements of a wife. 1667Milton P.L. x. 452 With what permissive glory since his fall Was left him, or false glitter. 1788V. Knox Wint. Even. (1790) II. ii. 15 A boldness of utterance and assertion, which often sets off base metal with the glitter of gold. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxix, Cassy, with a keen, sneering glitter in her eyes, stood looking at him. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xv. 169 A water-pool, in which my lantern made the glitter. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vi. 104 Louis Quinze coat, all a glitter with cut-steel. 1898Daily News 22 Jan. 6/5 Glitter is the key-note of smart outdoor dress at the moment.
fig.1863W. Phillips Speech xi. 255 The glitter of whose fame makes doubtful acts look heroic. 1868Milman St. Paul's vii. 152 The glitter of miracles which attested his [S. Erkenwald's] virtues. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. iii. 91 He seems to have tired of the glitter of Junius.
2. App. a mistake for gutter.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Head, The part that bears the antlers, royals, and tops, is called the beam, and the little streaks therein are glitters. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. III. v. 114.
3. Special Comb. glitter rock, a variety of rock music played by performers dressed flamboyantly in glittering costumes and make-up; cf. glam rock s.v. glam.
1972New Musical Express 14 Oct. 12 (heading) Carly Simon: This Jaggeresque lady antidote to glitter rock. 1973Newsweek 28 May 65/2 Alice [Cooper] has come a long way—from star of his high-school cross-country team to star of that garish division of the rock world known variously as glitter-rock, deca- (for decadent) rock or punk rock. Its hallmarks are chaos and confusion—chaotic sounds, confusion of logic and sexual identity. 1980J. Collis Rock Primer 300 Rock's social dimension has been reduced to grotesques and parodies:..the flirting with sexual doubts which ‘glitter-rock’ exploited.
Add:[1.] b. concr. = *glitter dust below.
1962New Statesman 18 May 708/2 All the grey glitter I put on me hair come off on his cheek. 1989Sunday Tel. 2 July 38/1 Man-made fibres, too much make-up, and any glitter are naff now.
[3.] glitter dust, a sparkling powder consisting of metallic particles, pieces of tinsel, etc., esp. used cosmetically or for decoration.
1960Guardian 26 Apr. 8/7 Guild of Hairdressers..National Junior Hair Stylist Competition... The rules were strict: no falsies, no nylon or spun-glass fantasies, no ornaments, no *glitter dust. 1982R. Ingalls Mrs Caliban 14 A species of military hat composed of metallic-painted cardboard, red glitterdust, and side rosettes.
▪ II. glitter, n.2 dial.
= glidder n.
1863[see glidder n.]. 1882J. Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. 480 A craggy and glitter-faced hill.
Hence ˈglitterless a., devoid of glitter; † ˈglitterous a. = next; ˈglittery a., full of glitter.
1596R. L[inche] Diella (1877) 50 Her hayre of such corruscant glitterous shine, as are the smallest streames of hottest sunne. 1757tr. Henckel's Pyritol. vii. 113 The white metals..usually..acquire a glittery..form. 1880G. C. M. Birdwood Ind. Art II. 10 If Indian jewelry should become mechanical, and hard, and glittery, it will at once cease to be artistic. 1882Sharp Rossetti ii. 55 The sea is a white blank, waveless, glitterless.
▪ III. glitter, v.|ˈglɪtə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 gliter, 4–6 gleter, glyter, 6 glittre, 4– glitter.
[Not recorded in OE.; ME. gliteren is prob. a. ON. glitra = MHG., mod.Ger. glitzern; a frequentative formation (see -er5) from the Teut. root *glī̆t- in OS. glîtan str. vb., OHG. glîȥan (mod.Ger. gleiszen) to shine, ON. glit brightness, glita to shine, Goth. glitmunjan to shine; the pre-Teut. root *ghleid-, ghlid- seems to occur in Gr. χλιδή luxury.]
1. intr. To shine with a brilliant but broken and tremulous light; to emit bright fitful flashes of light; to gleam, sparkle.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 604 Golde naylez, þat al glytered & glent as glem of þe sunne. a1400–50Alexander 4957 Al glitered þe ground for glori of his wedis. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 669 Gowlis glitterand full gay, glemand in grene. a1533Ld. Berners Huon liii. 181 Many helmes gletred agaynst the sonne. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. xi. 27 The waves glittering like Christal glas. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics xi. 162 The stars..glitter in their motions only to serve us. 1755Gray Progr. Poesy iii. iii, Before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the muse's ray. 1781Cowper Hope 42 Earth glitters with the drops the night distils. 1817Moore Lalla R. (ed. 2) 220 A gem from Persia's plunder'd mines, Shall glitter on thy Shrine of Shrines. 1860Kingsley Misc. II. 17 As their wings glittered in the light they looked like flakes of snow. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. xx, She looked up at him with trusting eyes, that still glittered with tears.
b. Proverb. (Cf. glister v. b.)
1638Drummond of Hawthornden Biblioth. Edinb. Lectori Wks. (1711) 222 All is not Gold which glittereth. 1784Johnson 2 Oct. in Boswell (ed. 2), All is not gold that glitters, as we have been often told.
2. fig.; esp. of persons: To make a brilliant appearance or display; to be showy or splendid (in dress, etc.).
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke ii. 48–52 She perceiued and founde a certain power of the godhed to glittre and shewe foorth in hym. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 48 Nature glitters most in her own plain homely garb. 1728T. Sheridan Persius Prol. 5 If the Hope of Money does but once glitter in their Thoughts. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 109 ⁋4 They had both..glittered in playhouses. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. ii. 75 Our gay assemblies..would glitter less. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. (ed. 2) 112, I saw her [the queen of France]..glittering like the morning star. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Prudence Wks. (Bohn) I. 97 Talent which..glitters to-day, that it may dine and sleep well to-morrow. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxix. 362 Every chapter glittered with vivid and highly coloured description. |