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Glitter   /glˈɪtər/   Listen
noun
Glitter  n.  A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.



verb
Glitter  v. i.  (past & past part. glittered; pres. part. glittering)  
1.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. "The field yet glitters with the pomp of war."
2.
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.
Synonyms: To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare. See Gleam, Flash.






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"Glitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... were not particular as to style or fashion— glitter and gay colour were the chief elements of attraction. Sometimes a naked savage might be seen going about with a second-hand dress-coat put on the wrong way, and buttoned up the back. Another would content himself with a red silk handkerchief tied round his head or shoulders. ...
— The Golden Dream - Adventures in the Far West • R.M. Ballantyne

... not even been allowed sufficient time to change his traveling clothes, was brought without hesitation to her bedside. She looked at him in silence for a moment, with a cold glitter in her eyes. ...
— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... glow, shimmer, flame, gleaming, illumination, shine, flare, glimmer, incandescence, shining, flash, glistening, luster, sparkle, flicker, glistering, scintillation, twinkle, glare, glitter, ...
— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald

... barren islets, suggesting ruins of stone walls, towers, and blockhouses, had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid, so still and stable did it lie below my feet; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly, without that animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple. And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar, I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea, edge to edge, with a perfect and unmarked closeness, ...
— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad

... executions, are but too many proofs of this sanguinary turn. But why the imputation should lie at the door of the vulgar alone may well be questioned; for while the star of nobility and dignified distinction was seen to glitter at a cock-match or on a boxing-stage, or near the 'Ring'—where its proprietor was liable to be elbowed by their highnesses of grease and soot, and to be hemmed in by knights of the post and canditates for Tyburn tree—when ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume II (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz


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