tinselry

Updated: May 23, 2025

Eleven o'clock. Father and mother sit silent by the fire. The tree in the corner of the room flashes its tinselry in the dying light. A cinder tinkles on the hearth. Their thoughts are one. "He would be nine years old, if he had lived," murmurs the mother. Their hands grope for each other, meet and clasp. Something aches in their throats. The red coals swell and blur into a formless mass.

Eugene Wood - Back Home

I abhor the gaudy tinselry which loads the devotees of fashion, indicative of false tastes and false principles; but white and pearls remind me of every thing pure and holy in nature. In the Bible we read of the white robes of angels and saints. Who ever dreamed of clothing them, in imagination, in dark or party-colored garments?

Caroline Lee Hentz - Ernest Linwood: or, The Inner Life of the Author

If they can be hung over with gewgaws and tinselry, if plumes shall tremble on their heads, silks shall rustle about them, and jewels shine wherever they go, to catch every eye and bewilder every passer-by, they fancy they are in the upper-ten of womanhood. Vain! The peacock, whose little heart is one beating pulse of vanity, is not half so vain as they.

G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women: On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And: Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty,: Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their: Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.