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- verb Present participle of
tinsel .
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Examples
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Seats were provided for these workers except for those at tinselling; and if they found they were able to complete the task easily, they sat at the work.
Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915
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The colors of those cheeks are not burnt in with fire: what your mirror passes off upon you as solid and enduring is but a slight tinselling, which, sooner or later, will rub off in the hands of the purchaser.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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The colors of those cheeks are not burnt in with fire: what your mirror passes off upon you as solid and enduring is but a slight tinselling, which, sooner or later, will rub off in the hands of the purchaser.
Love and Intrigue Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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