Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinselry
Literary usage of Tinselry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... of glaring gaiety and recklessness;—that gilded guilt must, one day, be stripped
of its tinselry, and flung into the haze and gloom of outer darkness. ..."
2. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1846)
"It is of itself powerful. It is of itself attractive. It needs not this gaudy
drapery of words, this glittering tinselry of ornament, ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1861 The Freshman Pow Wow, with all its absurd tinselry and grotesque extravagance....
is yet a class institution.— Yale Lit. Mag., xxvi. 258. ..."
4. The Massachusetts Teacher (1850)
"So a mind may be kept for years busied with the whole assortment of mental
tinselry, while, if its surplus, latent capacities had been judiciously developed ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1846)
"... [furled, { And he rends the gaudy garments Wrought with tinselry uncouth, i
Which enfold Religion's tempter, And conceal her simple truth; ..."
6. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... and behind the altar, and priests and boys firing guns at them, among the poor
tinselry of the worship, with results more damaging to "bell, ..."
7. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1846)
"... But from volumes of the present, Written on the grateful heart And he rends
the gaudy garments Wrought with tinselry uncouth, Which enfold Religion's ..."
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