glittering

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glittering

1. present participle of glitter

glittering (comparative more glittering, superlative most glittering)

1. Brightly sparkling.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

2. (figuratively) Valuable, desirable.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p.85:

     Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees.

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glittering (plural glitterings)

1. The appearance of something that glitters.
   • John Locke

     Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances.