clinquant vs tinsel

clinquant

adj
  • Glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. 

noun
  • Tinsel; glitter. 

  • Dutch metal. 

tinsel

adj
  • Apparently beautiful and costly but having little value; superficially attractive; gaudy, showy, tawdry. 

noun
  • A thin, shiny foil for ornamental purposes which is of a material made of metal or resembling metal; especially, narrow glittering strips of such a material, often strung on to thread, and traditionally at Christmastime draped on Christmas trees, hung from balustrades or ceilings, or wrapped around objects as a decoration. 

  • Anything shining and gaudy; especially something superficially shiny and showy, or having a false lustre, and more pretty than valuable. 

verb
  • To ornament (fabric, etc.) by weaving into it thread of gold, silver, or some other shiny material. 

  • To deck out (a place or something) with showy but cheap ornaments; to make gaudy. 

  • To give (something) a false or superficial attractiveness. 

How often have the words clinquant and tinsel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )