sequin

• From a distance, the shoe looks like tweed, but with a closer look you'll see that the shoe has sequin ornamentation!
• I was sure she had dressed in that frilly short skirt and sequin-covered blouse that had a matching hat and boots. —  VC Andrews - Broken Wings
• I thought this unjust, and although I was not a Frenchman, I abolished it in favor of the French; but I so rigorously demanded my right from persons of every other nation, that the Marquis de Scotti, brother to the favorite of the Queen of Spain, having asked for a passport without taking notice of the sequin: I sent to demand it; a boldness which the vindictive Italian did not forget. —  The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire
• Once—so said the tradition—he knocked a man down in the street, was brought before the delegato , as the police magistrate was called, and promptly fined one piastre, value about four and sixpence; whereupon he threw a sequin (two piastres) down upon the table and said that it was unnecessary to give him any change, inasmuch as he purposed knocking the man down again as soon as he left the court. —  What I Remember, Volume 2
• Chemical Mace and police clubs; sequin-spangled Humphrey Girls—street-scene Yippies, sleepless, beaded, bandaged, bearded, V-signing clean-for-Geners, earnest smiles and angry eyes; incongruously baby blue bright helmets of Chicago's Finest, and the long slow convoys of army-drab Guards on Lake Shore Drive. —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED

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