Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
tinsel .
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Examples
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You have been living upon rye-bread and soup-maigre, and now you come over like a walking atomy with a rat's tail at your wig, and a tinsey jacket.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01 Tobias George Smollett 1746
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You have been living upon rye-bread and soup-maigre, and now you come over like a walking atomy with a rat's tail at your wig, and a tinsey jacket.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete Tobias George Smollett 1746
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Lakehead University, a teensy-tinsey little school out in the boondocks near my aunt’s place which actually describes all of the places near all of my aunts, come to think of it, except Dodie has come up with a killer of a marketing ploy, if a bit late for September registrations.
marketing ploy o’ the day: Lakehead University « raincoaster 2006
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Lakehead University, a teensy-tinsey little school out in the boondocks near my aunt’s place which actually describes all of the places near all of my ...
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You have been living upon rye-bread and soup-maigre, and now you come over like a walking atomy with a rat’s tail at your wig, and a tinsey jacket.
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"strutting round their balconies in their tinsey robes and golden leather buskins;" the rope-dancers, and the dirty eating-places, where
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902
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