glitz

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May 15 - a son's expression of love and gratitude to his mother that even minus the glitz is to be appreciated of any mother's son.

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  1. noun Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz” (Peter G. Davis).
  2. transitive verb To invest with an ostentatiously showy quality: "have started to glitz up their shows with filmed backdrops” (Bill Barol).

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  • The technological glitz, the bells and whistles—I know it was hard to kick it all cold turkey. —  FSF,February2006
  • May 15 - a son's expression of love and gratitude to his mother that even minus the glitz is to be appreciated of any mother's son. —  PhilBoxing.com - XML News RSS/RDF Feed
  • It wouldn't have been Sir Elton, though, without some glitz -- cool sparkles ran down the length of one sleeve and there, gracing the back of his coat, was his younger self -- in the mouth of a sparkling alligator.
  • This is the season for glory and glitz -- that is, if one were to cast their eye westward.
  • The Hollywood glitz, the limousines and the red carpets of the Oscars could not be farther away from the Bandra slum, nestled between a major road and filthy train tracks.
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  1. Back-formation from glitzy, flashy, showy, probably from German glitzern, to glitter, from Middle High German glitzen, to shine, from Old High German glīzan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.
 

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