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121flashy — adjective (flashier; est) Date: 1593 1. chiefly dialect lacking in substance or flavor ; insipid 2. momentarily dazzling 3. a. superficially attractive or impressive b. ostentatious or showy often beyond the bounds of good taste; especially… …
122tawdry — I. adjective (tawdrier; est) Etymology: tawdry lace a tie of lace for the neck, from Saint Audrey (Saint Etheldreda) died 679 queen of Northumbria Date: 1655 cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality; also ignoble < a tawdry attempt to smear his… …
123tinsel — I. noun Etymology: Middle English tyneseyle cloth interwoven with metallic thread, probably from Anglo French tencelé, past participle of tenceler, estenceler to sparkle more at stencil Date: 1538 1. threads, strips, or sheets of metal, paper, or …
124University of Oxford — Coordinates: 51°45′40″N 1°15′12″W / 51.7611°N 1.2534°W / 51.7611; 1.2534 …
125Oriel College, Oxford — Colleges and halls of the University of Oxford Oriel College …
126Busman's Honeymoon — infobox Book | name = Busman s Honeymoon title orig = translator = image caption = Recent US paperback edition cover author = Dorothy L. Sayers cover artist = country = UK language = English series = Lord Peter Wimsey genre = Mystery, Detective… …
127Glam metal — Infobox Music genre name = Glam metal color = white bgcolor = #BB0022 subgenrelist white stylistic origins= Heavy metal Glam rock Hard rock Pop rock cultural origins = Early 1980s at the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, United States and England… …
128A Staircase in Surrey — is a sequence of five novels by Scottish novelist and academic J. I. M. Stewart (1906 ndash;1994), and published between 1974 and 1978. The title refers to student accommodation in an imaginary Oxford college. (A staircase, in the more… …
