Definition of tinsel in English:

tinsel

noun ˈtɪns(ə)lˈtɪnsəl

mass noun

1A form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil attached to a long piece of thread.
金属箔；金属丝（或线）
a room bedecked with tinsel and fairy lights
Example sentencesExamples
- At that time, it was unthinkable that anyone would believe that it was anything but real, especially after a decoration of tinsel and an assortment of differently shaped and coloured baubles.
- A camel ambles past, decorated in tinsel and red trappings.
- Oh, and this strip of tinsel is already beginning to irritate me.
- This is why tinsel is used to decorate Christmas trees.
- We took balloons and tinsel to decorate the black netting sunshade under which we had a traditional feast of a huge chicken wrapped in foil and cooked on the beach barbecue all morning.
- In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys.
- A piece of green tinsel was twirled around her call-bell.
- They also wanted the airport to donate last year's tinsel and festive décor to local community groups.
- I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be.
- What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill.
- I think they'd prefer a splash of tinsel round the school instead.
- The once bare evergreen branches are now adorned with silver tinsel and glittering ornaments.
- There wasn't a single extra piece of tinsel, no baubles, no lights, no street entertainment at all.
- Clad in silver foil and dripping with tinsel, glam-rockers were perfectly suited to the knees-up, mine's-a-double jollity of a proper Christmas party.
- The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights.
- Another reader said hanging Christmas tinsel or aluminium foil strips in trees where fruit bats feed also works well.
- Sadly, it's yet another case of Congressional false advertising - a lump of coal wrapped in shiny tinsel.
- The gaudy tinsel and the 155,000 lights of 2004 have given way to a more natural look of Christmas trees decorated with white lilies and pink roses that are replaced as they wilt.
- I am careful not to push loose the strand of tinsel Christmas decorations that I left strung across the room.
- These were aluminum strips not unlike tinsel and were dropped from the aircraft to obscure the enemy's radar with ‘snow.’
Synonyms
spangle, glitter, metallic yarn
rare clinquant
1. 1.1 Showy or superficial attractiveness or glamour.
  华而不实；浮华
  his taste for the tinsel of the art world
  他对艺术界浮华的偏好。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In fact, a seldom trumpeted trait about the Malayalam film industry has been its rendering a red carpet welcome to its tinsel townhood neighbours!
  Despite his tinsel heroics, Jeremy wasn't able to overcome his fear and says he won't be doing it again any time soon.
  So we could soon see star-struck youngsters learning their study materials directly from tinsel world heroes or heroines.
  The tinsel celebrity, now the talk of the town, was flying to Coimbatore for a shoot and she stopped off to pick up her boarding pass.
  With hardly any releases to speak of in the last couple of years, and no more than a single hit from her last five productions, it should be easy to dismiss her as just another ambitious woman in the glamorous tinsel world.
  Like them he too had little difficulty entering the glitzy and glamorous tinsel world.
  Even seasoned actors and producers find this an appropriate time to launch their sons in tinsel world.
  The presence of the legendary tinsel queens has been palpable from day one.
  But it's alternative; it's for people who think glamour is not tinsel.
  Mainstream tinsel world celebrities have left for Dubai by Emirates Airlines today to give special performances in Dubai on May 29 and then in London on May 31.
  These cultural meets are also fast turning out to be platforms for bringing in tinsel stars, notwithstanding the fact that they have nothing to do with academics.
  At the end, she waved to the crowd with a tinsel glamour and sported a forced, yet innocent smile, revealing her missing tooth.
  Such is their distaste for tinsel distinctions that, throughout the devolved parliament's long, three-year history, they have only awarded themselves one medal.
  As well as these tinsel tales, there are large numbers of records, still being slowly translated, which provide a complement to the operatic version of Persian history: the Persians in documentary.
  Where are we going to find precedents as an alternative to this tinsel culture.
  He still continues to make style statements with his ensemble and not for nothing is he called the well-dressed man of Telugu tinsel ville.
  The festival screened as many as 25 short and docufilms of exceptional quality, a visual delight to those who crave for realism in the highly commercialised tinsel world.
  Show business is not paved with gold for the creators of its tinsel towns.
  Meet Sudeep who is making it big in the Kannada tinsel world.
  The presence of glamorous tinsel stars add more sheen to any function with frenzied crowd trying to have a glimpse of their favourite stars.
  Synonyms
  ostentation, showiness, show, showing off, ostentatiousness, pretentiousness, pretension, vulgarity, conspicuousness, obtrusiveness, display, flamboyance, gaudiness, garishness, tawdriness, meretriciousness, brashness, loudness, extravagance, ornateness, theatricality
  kitschness, affectation, bad taste, tastelessness, self-advertisement, exhibitionism, flaunting
  informal flashiness, flash, flashness, glitz, glitziness, ritziness, swankiness, swank, splashiness
  ostentatious, pretentious, showy, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tawdry, meretricious, trashy, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, overdone, over-elaborate
  kitsch, tasteless
  informal flash, flashy, over the top, OTT, glitzy, ritzy, swanky, splashy
  North American informal superfly, bling-bling, dicty

Derivatives

tinselled

adjective ˈtɪnsəldˈtɪnsəld

1Decorated or adorned with tinsel.
an overly tinselled Christmas tree
Sligo's Christmas decorations had never been this spectacular, each dazzling tinselled window upstaging the next.
Young girls in hip-huggers waved tinselled flags reading Shalom [peace] in Hebrew.
Casino will be lit up, tinselled and humming for Christmas.
1. 1.1 Showily or superficially attractive or glamorous.
  华而不实；浮华
  his tinselled sentiments
  Example sentencesExamples
  Smith's respect for the perpetual innocence appealed to by tinseled trinkets, hokey advertisements and commercial slogans takes her deep into our paradoxical needs and psychological insecurities.
  Through the mess of a feathered boa, a short, sequined flapper dress, platform shoes, and a tinseled wig, I was shocked to find a guy's face.
  Today it is time to reveal to all New Zealanders once and for all that the minority Labour Government is being led not by a Teflon lady but by a tinselled time-server.
  The seniors file amicably on board with pockets full of quarters and wads of singles, en route to Atlantic City and its tinseled Trump casinos.
  Still, it would be nice to see the flesh and bone brethren work up something terrifically tinseled, not overblown with effects or false feelings of Feliz Navidad.

tinselly

adjective ˈtɪnsəldˈtɪnsəld

1Decorated or adorned with tinsel.
an overly tinselled Christmas tree
Doesn't it mean something that at Christmas a real proper song might be number one instead of the usual tinselly tat?
Candlelight, tinselly twirls, soft focus spots and moody atmospherics provided an intimate setting.
Simultaneously, costume designs grow ever more formulaic - some skimpy square inches of spandex, a few festoons of beads, a few tinselly loops of braid, and a feather or two, with a few dozen colour variations.
1. 1.1 Showily or superficially attractive or glamorous.
  华而不实；浮华
  his tinselled sentiments
  Example sentencesExamples
  Smith's respect for the perpetual innocence appealed to by tinseled trinkets, hokey advertisements and commercial slogans takes her deep into our paradoxical needs and psychological insecurities.
  Through the mess of a feathered boa, a short, sequined flapper dress, platform shoes, and a tinseled wig, I was shocked to find a guy's face.
  Today it is time to reveal to all New Zealanders once and for all that the minority Labour Government is being led not by a Teflon lady but by a tinselled time-server.
  The seniors file amicably on board with pockets full of quarters and wads of singles, en route to Atlantic City and its tinseled Trump casinos.
  Still, it would be nice to see the flesh and bone brethren work up something terrifically tinseled, not overblown with effects or false feelings of Feliz Navidad.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting fabric either interwoven with metallic thread or spangled): from Old French estincele 'spark', or estinceler 'to sparkle', based on Latin scintilla 'a spark'.

Sparkly tinsel comes from Latin scintilla ‘a spark’, which is also the source of scintillate (early 17th century). In medieval times tinsel was fabric woven with metallic thread or spangles—it became something like our familiar shiny strips in the late 16th century. The idea of glitter was picked up during the 1970s in Tinseltown, a nickname for Hollywood and its cinema.

Rhymes

windsail

Definition of tinsel in US English:

tinsel

nounˈtɪnsəlˈtinsəl

1A form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil.
金属箔；金属丝（或线）
Example sentencesExamples
- I think they'd prefer a splash of tinsel round the school instead.
- Sadly, it's yet another case of Congressional false advertising - a lump of coal wrapped in shiny tinsel.
- These were aluminum strips not unlike tinsel and were dropped from the aircraft to obscure the enemy's radar with ‘snow.’
- The once bare evergreen branches are now adorned with silver tinsel and glittering ornaments.
- A camel ambles past, decorated in tinsel and red trappings.
- Another reader said hanging Christmas tinsel or aluminium foil strips in trees where fruit bats feed also works well.
- What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill.
- The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights.
- There wasn't a single extra piece of tinsel, no baubles, no lights, no street entertainment at all.
- A piece of green tinsel was twirled around her call-bell.
- This is why tinsel is used to decorate Christmas trees.
- We took balloons and tinsel to decorate the black netting sunshade under which we had a traditional feast of a huge chicken wrapped in foil and cooked on the beach barbecue all morning.
- In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys.
- They also wanted the airport to donate last year's tinsel and festive décor to local community groups.
- I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be.
- Clad in silver foil and dripping with tinsel, glam-rockers were perfectly suited to the knees-up, mine's-a-double jollity of a proper Christmas party.
- The gaudy tinsel and the 155,000 lights of 2004 have given way to a more natural look of Christmas trees decorated with white lilies and pink roses that are replaced as they wilt.
- I am careful not to push loose the strand of tinsel Christmas decorations that I left strung across the room.
- Oh, and this strip of tinsel is already beginning to irritate me.
- At that time, it was unthinkable that anyone would believe that it was anything but real, especially after a decoration of tinsel and an assortment of differently shaped and coloured baubles.
Synonyms
spangle, glitter, metallic yarn
1. 1.1 Showy or superficial attractiveness or glamour.
  华而不实；浮华
  his taste for the tinsel of the art world
  他对艺术界浮华的偏好。
  Example sentencesExamples
  With hardly any releases to speak of in the last couple of years, and no more than a single hit from her last five productions, it should be easy to dismiss her as just another ambitious woman in the glamorous tinsel world.
  Meet Sudeep who is making it big in the Kannada tinsel world.
  Mainstream tinsel world celebrities have left for Dubai by Emirates Airlines today to give special performances in Dubai on May 29 and then in London on May 31.
  Despite his tinsel heroics, Jeremy wasn't able to overcome his fear and says he won't be doing it again any time soon.
  He still continues to make style statements with his ensemble and not for nothing is he called the well-dressed man of Telugu tinsel ville.
  The festival screened as many as 25 short and docufilms of exceptional quality, a visual delight to those who crave for realism in the highly commercialised tinsel world.
  The presence of glamorous tinsel stars add more sheen to any function with frenzied crowd trying to have a glimpse of their favourite stars.
  The presence of the legendary tinsel queens has been palpable from day one.
  These cultural meets are also fast turning out to be platforms for bringing in tinsel stars, notwithstanding the fact that they have nothing to do with academics.
  In fact, a seldom trumpeted trait about the Malayalam film industry has been its rendering a red carpet welcome to its tinsel townhood neighbours!
  The tinsel celebrity, now the talk of the town, was flying to Coimbatore for a shoot and she stopped off to pick up her boarding pass.
  Such is their distaste for tinsel distinctions that, throughout the devolved parliament's long, three-year history, they have only awarded themselves one medal.
  As well as these tinsel tales, there are large numbers of records, still being slowly translated, which provide a complement to the operatic version of Persian history: the Persians in documentary.
  So we could soon see star-struck youngsters learning their study materials directly from tinsel world heroes or heroines.
  Even seasoned actors and producers find this an appropriate time to launch their sons in tinsel world.
  Show business is not paved with gold for the creators of its tinsel towns.
  But it's alternative; it's for people who think glamour is not tinsel.
  At the end, she waved to the crowd with a tinsel glamour and sported a forced, yet innocent smile, revealing her missing tooth.
  Like them he too had little difficulty entering the glitzy and glamorous tinsel world.
  Where are we going to find precedents as an alternative to this tinsel culture.
  Synonyms
  ostentation, showiness, show, showing off, ostentatiousness, pretentiousness, pretension, vulgarity, conspicuousness, obtrusiveness, display, flamboyance, gaudiness, garishness, tawdriness, meretriciousness, brashness, loudness, extravagance, ornateness, theatricality
  ostentatious, pretentious, showy, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tawdry, meretricious, trashy, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, overdone, over-elaborate

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting fabric either interwoven with metallic thread or spangled): from Old French estincele ‘spark’, or estinceler ‘to sparkle’, based on Latin scintilla ‘a spark’.

单词	tinsel
释义	Definition of tinsel in English: tinsel noun ˈtɪns(ə)lˈtɪnsəl mass noun 1A form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil attached to a long piece of thread. 金属箔；金属丝（或线） a room bedecked with tinsel and fairy lights Example sentencesExamples At that time, it was unthinkable that anyone would believe that it was anything but real, especially after a decoration of tinsel and an assortment of differently shaped and coloured baubles. A camel ambles past, decorated in tinsel and red trappings. Oh, and this strip of tinsel is already beginning to irritate me. This is why tinsel is used to decorate Christmas trees. We took balloons and tinsel to decorate the black netting sunshade under which we had a traditional feast of a huge chicken wrapped in foil and cooked on the beach barbecue all morning. In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys. A piece of green tinsel was twirled around her call-bell. They also wanted the airport to donate last year's tinsel and festive décor to local community groups. I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be. What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill. I think they'd prefer a splash of tinsel round the school instead. The once bare evergreen branches are now adorned with silver tinsel and glittering ornaments. There wasn't a single extra piece of tinsel, no baubles, no lights, no street entertainment at all. Clad in silver foil and dripping with tinsel, glam-rockers were perfectly suited to the knees-up, mine's-a-double jollity of a proper Christmas party. The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights. Another reader said hanging Christmas tinsel or aluminium foil strips in trees where fruit bats feed also works well. Sadly, it's yet another case of Congressional false advertising - a lump of coal wrapped in shiny tinsel. The gaudy tinsel and the 155,000 lights of 2004 have given way to a more natural look of Christmas trees decorated with white lilies and pink roses that are replaced as they wilt. I am careful not to push loose the strand of tinsel Christmas decorations that I left strung across the room. These were aluminum strips not unlike tinsel and were dropped from the aircraft to obscure the enemy's radar with ‘snow.’ Synonyms spangle, glitter, metallic yarn rare clinquant 1.1 Showy or superficial attractiveness or glamour. 华而不实；浮华 his taste for the tinsel of the art world 他对艺术界浮华的偏好。 Example sentencesExamples In fact, a seldom trumpeted trait about the Malayalam film industry has been its rendering a red carpet welcome to its tinsel townhood neighbours! Despite his tinsel heroics, Jeremy wasn't able to overcome his fear and says he won't be doing it again any time soon. So we could soon see star-struck youngsters learning their study materials directly from tinsel world heroes or heroines. The tinsel celebrity, now the talk of the town, was flying to Coimbatore for a shoot and she stopped off to pick up her boarding pass. With hardly any releases to speak of in the last couple of years, and no more than a single hit from her last five productions, it should be easy to dismiss her as just another ambitious woman in the glamorous tinsel world. Like them he too had little difficulty entering the glitzy and glamorous tinsel world. Even seasoned actors and producers find this an appropriate time to launch their sons in tinsel world. The presence of the legendary tinsel queens has been palpable from day one. But it's alternative; it's for people who think glamour is not tinsel. Mainstream tinsel world celebrities have left for Dubai by Emirates Airlines today to give special performances in Dubai on May 29 and then in London on May 31. These cultural meets are also fast turning out to be platforms for bringing in tinsel stars, notwithstanding the fact that they have nothing to do with academics. At the end, she waved to the crowd with a tinsel glamour and sported a forced, yet innocent smile, revealing her missing tooth. Such is their distaste for tinsel distinctions that, throughout the devolved parliament's long, three-year history, they have only awarded themselves one medal. As well as these tinsel tales, there are large numbers of records, still being slowly translated, which provide a complement to the operatic version of Persian history: the Persians in documentary. Where are we going to find precedents as an alternative to this tinsel culture. He still continues to make style statements with his ensemble and not for nothing is he called the well-dressed man of Telugu tinsel ville. The festival screened as many as 25 short and docufilms of exceptional quality, a visual delight to those who crave for realism in the highly commercialised tinsel world. Show business is not paved with gold for the creators of its tinsel towns. Meet Sudeep who is making it big in the Kannada tinsel world. The presence of glamorous tinsel stars add more sheen to any function with frenzied crowd trying to have a glimpse of their favourite stars. Synonyms ostentation, showiness, show, showing off, ostentatiousness, pretentiousness, pretension, vulgarity, conspicuousness, obtrusiveness, display, flamboyance, gaudiness, garishness, tawdriness, meretriciousness, brashness, loudness, extravagance, ornateness, theatricality kitschness, affectation, bad taste, tastelessness, self-advertisement, exhibitionism, flaunting informal flashiness, flash, flashness, glitz, glitziness, ritziness, swankiness, swank, splashiness ostentatious, pretentious, showy, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tawdry, meretricious, trashy, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, overdone, over-elaborate kitsch, tasteless informal flash, flashy, over the top, OTT, glitzy, ritzy, swanky, splashy North American informal superfly, bling-bling, dicty Derivatives tinselled adjective ˈtɪnsəldˈtɪnsəld 1Decorated or adorned with tinsel. an overly tinselled Christmas tree Sligo's Christmas decorations had never been this spectacular, each dazzling tinselled window upstaging the next. Young girls in hip-huggers waved tinselled flags reading Shalom [peace] in Hebrew. Casino will be lit up, tinselled and humming for Christmas. 1.1 Showily or superficially attractive or glamorous. 华而不实；浮华 his tinselled sentiments Example sentencesExamples Smith's respect for the perpetual innocence appealed to by tinseled trinkets, hokey advertisements and commercial slogans takes her deep into our paradoxical needs and psychological insecurities. Through the mess of a feathered boa, a short, sequined flapper dress, platform shoes, and a tinseled wig, I was shocked to find a guy's face. Today it is time to reveal to all New Zealanders once and for all that the minority Labour Government is being led not by a Teflon lady but by a tinselled time-server. The seniors file amicably on board with pockets full of quarters and wads of singles, en route to Atlantic City and its tinseled Trump casinos. Still, it would be nice to see the flesh and bone brethren work up something terrifically tinseled, not overblown with effects or false feelings of Feliz Navidad. tinselly adjective ˈtɪnsəldˈtɪnsəld 1Decorated or adorned with tinsel. an overly tinselled Christmas tree Doesn't it mean something that at Christmas a real proper song might be number one instead of the usual tinselly tat? Candlelight, tinselly twirls, soft focus spots and moody atmospherics provided an intimate setting. Simultaneously, costume designs grow ever more formulaic - some skimpy square inches of spandex, a few festoons of beads, a few tinselly loops of braid, and a feather or two, with a few dozen colour variations. 1.1 Showily or superficially attractive or glamorous. 华而不实；浮华 his tinselled sentiments Example sentencesExamples Smith's respect for the perpetual innocence appealed to by tinseled trinkets, hokey advertisements and commercial slogans takes her deep into our paradoxical needs and psychological insecurities. Through the mess of a feathered boa, a short, sequined flapper dress, platform shoes, and a tinseled wig, I was shocked to find a guy's face. Today it is time to reveal to all New Zealanders once and for all that the minority Labour Government is being led not by a Teflon lady but by a tinselled time-server. The seniors file amicably on board with pockets full of quarters and wads of singles, en route to Atlantic City and its tinseled Trump casinos. Still, it would be nice to see the flesh and bone brethren work up something terrifically tinseled, not overblown with effects or false feelings of Feliz Navidad. Origin Late Middle English (denoting fabric either interwoven with metallic thread or spangled): from Old French estincele 'spark', or estinceler 'to sparkle', based on Latin scintilla 'a spark'. Sparkly tinsel comes from Latin scintilla ‘a spark’, which is also the source of scintillate (early 17th century). In medieval times tinsel was fabric woven with metallic thread or spangles—it became something like our familiar shiny strips in the late 16th century. The idea of glitter was picked up during the 1970s in Tinseltown, a nickname for Hollywood and its cinema. Rhymes windsail Definition of tinsel in US English: tinsel nounˈtɪnsəlˈtinsəl 1A form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil. 金属箔；金属丝（或线） Example sentencesExamples I think they'd prefer a splash of tinsel round the school instead. Sadly, it's yet another case of Congressional false advertising - a lump of coal wrapped in shiny tinsel. These were aluminum strips not unlike tinsel and were dropped from the aircraft to obscure the enemy's radar with ‘snow.’ The once bare evergreen branches are now adorned with silver tinsel and glittering ornaments. A camel ambles past, decorated in tinsel and red trappings. Another reader said hanging Christmas tinsel or aluminium foil strips in trees where fruit bats feed also works well. What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill. The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights. There wasn't a single extra piece of tinsel, no baubles, no lights, no street entertainment at all. A piece of green tinsel was twirled around her call-bell. This is why tinsel is used to decorate Christmas trees. We took balloons and tinsel to decorate the black netting sunshade under which we had a traditional feast of a huge chicken wrapped in foil and cooked on the beach barbecue all morning. In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys. They also wanted the airport to donate last year's tinsel and festive décor to local community groups. I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be. Clad in silver foil and dripping with tinsel, glam-rockers were perfectly suited to the knees-up, mine's-a-double jollity of a proper Christmas party. The gaudy tinsel and the 155,000 lights of 2004 have given way to a more natural look of Christmas trees decorated with white lilies and pink roses that are replaced as they wilt. I am careful not to push loose the strand of tinsel Christmas decorations that I left strung across the room. Oh, and this strip of tinsel is already beginning to irritate me. At that time, it was unthinkable that anyone would believe that it was anything but real, especially after a decoration of tinsel and an assortment of differently shaped and coloured baubles. Synonyms spangle, glitter, metallic yarn 1.1 Showy or superficial attractiveness or glamour. 华而不实；浮华 his taste for the tinsel of the art world 他对艺术界浮华的偏好。 Example sentencesExamples With hardly any releases to speak of in the last couple of years, and no more than a single hit from her last five productions, it should be easy to dismiss her as just another ambitious woman in the glamorous tinsel world. Meet Sudeep who is making it big in the Kannada tinsel world. Mainstream tinsel world celebrities have left for Dubai by Emirates Airlines today to give special performances in Dubai on May 29 and then in London on May 31. Despite his tinsel heroics, Jeremy wasn't able to overcome his fear and says he won't be doing it again any time soon. He still continues to make style statements with his ensemble and not for nothing is he called the well-dressed man of Telugu tinsel ville. The festival screened as many as 25 short and docufilms of exceptional quality, a visual delight to those who crave for realism in the highly commercialised tinsel world. The presence of glamorous tinsel stars add more sheen to any function with frenzied crowd trying to have a glimpse of their favourite stars. The presence of the legendary tinsel queens has been palpable from day one. These cultural meets are also fast turning out to be platforms for bringing in tinsel stars, notwithstanding the fact that they have nothing to do with academics. In fact, a seldom trumpeted trait about the Malayalam film industry has been its rendering a red carpet welcome to its tinsel townhood neighbours! The tinsel celebrity, now the talk of the town, was flying to Coimbatore for a shoot and she stopped off to pick up her boarding pass. Such is their distaste for tinsel distinctions that, throughout the devolved parliament's long, three-year history, they have only awarded themselves one medal. As well as these tinsel tales, there are large numbers of records, still being slowly translated, which provide a complement to the operatic version of Persian history: the Persians in documentary. So we could soon see star-struck youngsters learning their study materials directly from tinsel world heroes or heroines. Even seasoned actors and producers find this an appropriate time to launch their sons in tinsel world. Show business is not paved with gold for the creators of its tinsel towns. But it's alternative; it's for people who think glamour is not tinsel. At the end, she waved to the crowd with a tinsel glamour and sported a forced, yet innocent smile, revealing her missing tooth. Like them he too had little difficulty entering the glitzy and glamorous tinsel world. Where are we going to find precedents as an alternative to this tinsel culture. Synonyms ostentation, showiness, show, showing off, ostentatiousness, pretentiousness, pretension, vulgarity, conspicuousness, obtrusiveness, display, flamboyance, gaudiness, garishness, tawdriness, meretriciousness, brashness, loudness, extravagance, ornateness, theatricality ostentatious, pretentious, showy, conspicuous, obtrusive, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, tawdry, meretricious, trashy, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, affected, theatrical, overdone, over-elaborate Origin Late Middle English (denoting fabric either interwoven with metallic thread or spangled): from Old French estincele ‘spark’, or estinceler ‘to sparkle’, based on Latin scintilla ‘a spark’.
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