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Meanings of tinsel in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "lamé"
Examples for "lamé"
1
There are platinum lamé gowns slit all the way to the tenth rib.
2
Behind Richard Dawson, pink with sweat, shimmers a backdrop of gold foil lamé.
3
Lana Lee appeared on the stage in what looked like gold lamé overalls.
4
The costume screamed out for something like gold lamé slippers or snake-skin boots.
5
I wouldn't have put money on you knowing what lamé was.
Usage of tinsel in anglès
1
There were the usual tinsel things and red baize and sham flowers.
2
He left draped in a red and gold tinsel cloak and turban.
3
The decorations do not seem tawdry, nor the tinsel other than real.
4
Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.
5
Look under the tinsel in LA, they say, and there's real tinsel.
6
Tell me, was that gun-to-your-head stuff just tinsel, or were they serious?
7
The shuttle spiralled down behind the debris of tinsel and misled missiles.
8
On her brow he placed a tinsel crown at a rakish angle.
9
A few flakes of snow were falling, like glistening particles of tinsel.
10
Our robes and altar cloths, our tin and tinsel, were not His.
11
The tinsel star was still upon it, and shone in the bright sunshine.
12
Beginning with the original Tree Night, teams draped their branches with silver tinsel.
13
She seemed so experienced and self-reliant in her tinsel helmet and military accoutrements.
14
The sailor of the olden times never used tinsel nautical terms.
15
A stunted old Negress entered, dressed in the most tawdry tinsel.
16
She is not addicted to sham jewellery; she has no weakness for tinsel.
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Tinsel through the time
Tinsel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common