Definition of Clinquants

1. clinquant [n] - See also: clinquant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clinquants

clinophosinaite
clinopinacoid
clinopinacoids
clinopyroxene
clinopyroxenes
clinorhombic
clinorotation
clinosafflorite
clinoscope
clinostat
clinotobermorite
clinoungemachite
clinozoisite
clinozoisites
clinquant
clinquants (current term)
clint
clintonia
clintonias
clintonite
clintonites
clints
cliometric
cliometrician
cliometricians
cliometrics
clioxanide
clip
clip-clop

Literary usage of Clinquants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Lace by Bury Palliser (1869)
"... against "clinquants'4 et dorures. ... the satirist, writes :— " A propos, on m'u (lit Quo contre les clinquants le roy ..."

2. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1892)
"Dans la quatrième bande il s'agit d'un autre instrument musical, une sorte d'anneau muni, à ce qu'il parait,de sonnettes on de clinquants. ..."

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