glitter

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Even the glitter was there, caused by the rays refracted from the facets of the myriad frost-crystals They mounted the steps of the nigh building, and, without knocking, flung the door open, entered, then tossed their bundles to the floor.

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  1. noun A sparkling or glistening light.
  2. noun Brilliant or showy, often superficial attractiveness.
  3. noun Small pieces of light-reflecting decorative material.

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  • Gold in the rough did not glitter, and was not yellow. —  The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
  • Even the glitter was there, caused by the rays refracted from the facets of the myriad frost-crystals They mounted the steps of the nigh building, and, without knocking, flung the door open, entered, then tossed their bundles to the floor. —  The Silver Horde
  • Open your eyes, and you'll wake up in the New Jerusalem All is gold that glitters Tree and tower of brass Rolls the golden evening air Down the golden grass Kick the cry to Jericho How yellow mud is sold All is gold that glitters For the glitter is the gold And who wrote that?" —  Manalive
  • Even the glitter was there, caused by the rays refracted from the facets of the myriad frost-crystals. —  The Silver Horde
  • Instead of the punishment, there is seen a false glitter of gaudy life, — a glitter which is damnably false, — and which, alas I has been more often portrayed in glowing colours, for the injury of young girls, than have those horrors which ought to deter, with the dark shadowings which belong to them. —  Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
 

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gleam ·  sheen ·  brightness ·  flash ·  shimmer ·  splendor ·  glare ·  lustre ·  shine ·  sparkle ·  streak ·  brilliancy
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English gliteren, to sparkle, from Old Norse glitra; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English gliteren, rarely glideren (Anglo-Saxon *gliterian not found) = Middle High German G. glitzern = Icelandic glitra = Swedish glittra = Danish glitre, glitter; a freq. form, equivalent to Anglo-Saxon glitinian, glitenian = Old High German glizinōn, Middle High German glitzinen, glitter, to Gothic (Moesogothic) glitmunjan, shine, and to Middle High German glitzen = Icelandic glita = Old Danish glitte, glitter (Icelandic glit, n., glitter); all secondary forms from an orig. strong verb, Old Saxon glītan = Old High German glīzan, Middle High German glīzen, German gleissen, shine, glitter, from a root *glit, allied to glim, glimmer, etc.: see glim, glimmer, and cf. gliss, glisten, glister.
  2. from glitter, v.
 

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