tinseyn.
/ˈtɪnsi/ Tinsel (see tinsel n.3 and adj.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy
bawdrya1529
bravery1563
fangle1583
flaunt1590
gaudery1597
trumperya1616
ginger-work1631
frippery1637
finery1647
tawdrya1680
tawdrum1680
tinsey1685
flappet1728
gingerbread work1748
tinsel1782
fallalery1824
tinselry1830
figgery1841
flaring1881
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > interwoven with metallic thread
tissue?a1366
cypress14..
cloth of goldc1405
imperialc1435
gold webc1475
tinsel1523
cloth of silver1530
imperial clotha1553
tinsey1685
lama1818
lamé1922
kain songket1949
1685 London Gaz. No. 2001/4 A Groce of Gimp Lace mixt with Tincy.
1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. iii. 10 Built for imaginary Princes To strut in Buskins, and in Tinseys.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 146 I've shewn him how little I minded his tinsy and his long tail.
1831 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 821 Ye think the peacock's harl and the tinsy hae slipped frae your jaws.
1889 T. T. Stoddart Angling Songs 254 Awa' wi' yer tinsey sae braw!
Compounds
attributive or adj.; also in combinations.
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1699 E. Ward London Spy I. x. 11 The Quality of the Fair, Struting round their Ballconies in their Tinsy Robes.
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica (ed. 2) 246 They clap a Saddle upon 'em, cover'd with a Sort of Tinsey Stuff.
1721 A. Ramsay Morning Interview 162 His head reclin'd upon a tinsy roll.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxviii. 203 You come over like a walking atomy, with a rat's tail at your wig, and a tinsy jacket.
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 298/1 [Angling] The yellow-bodied, tinsey-tailed, black-half-heckle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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