tinselled

Or tinselled crowns, for forms that sensed no haloes

Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising 2009

Yes, a lie, turned topsy – turvy, can be prinked and tinselled out, decked in plumage new and fine, till none knows its lean old carcass.

Peer Gynt 2008

Yes, a lie, turned topsy – turvy, can be prinked and tinselled out, decked in plumage new and fine, till none knows its lean old carcass.

Peer Gynt 2008

I say impotent, for I observe that to such grievances as society cannot readily cure, it usually forbids utterance, on pain of its scorn: this scorn being only a sort of tinselled cloak to its deformed weakness.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

I could tell them vague tales of their poetry, and cruel wars: but it seemed so distant and tinselled an age.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Ah! if he could only manage to prevent it, if she could sprain her ankle before starting, if the driver of the carriage which was to take her to the station would consent (no matter how great the bribe) to smuggle her to some place where she could be kept for a time in seclusion, that perfidious woman, her eyes tinselled with a smile of complicity for

Swann's Way 2003

For though the kingdom of Israel was more flourishing in wealth and in number of inhabitants, yet because it was spurious, it was not the object of God's favor: nor indeed was it right, that, by its tinselled splendor, it should eclipse the glory of the Divine election which was engraven upon the tribe of Judah.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

But in spite of his habitual bonhomie his expression darkened when Ayesha undid her bundle to show him two dozen figures of a young man in a clown hat, accompanied by a decorated bullock that could dip its tinselled head.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

In the middle of this picture stood the Mardian dolmen, unencumbered now, glinting with frost as if, incongruously, it had been tinselled for the occasion.

Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

Till at last they show the Pontiff, a lay figure stuffed and tinselled;

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various