Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ceramics, a process by which the surface of a piece of pottery is made to appear metallic in parts by washing with a species of metallic luster.
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- verb Present participle of
tinsel .
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They stood along the edge of the world like a fortress of stone, snow and glacial ice glittering like treasure, the melting ice pack tinseling the walls of rock with waterfalls that looked from here like threads of silver.
Wild Blood Horton, Naomi 1997
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