For the after century it was reserved to restore what we may be permitted to call the spirit of our national literature; to forsake the clinquant of the French mimickers of classic gold; to exchange a thrice-adulterated Hippocrene for the pure well of Shakspeare and of Nature; to clothe philosophy in the gorgeous and solemn majesty of appropriate music; and to invest passion with a language as burning as its thought and rapid as its impulse.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Descartes has almost entirely discarded this quaintness, which sometimes passed into what is called in French clinquant, that is to say, tawdry and grotesque ornament.
"A Short History of French Literature"
George Saintsbury
She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.
"Lucasta"
Richard Lovelace