outglitter
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[edit]outglitter (third-person singular simple present outglitters, present participle outglittering, simple past and past participle outglittered)
- (transitive) To surpass in glitter or splendour.
- 1838, Catherine Grace Frances, The Woman of the World: A Novel, volume 1, page 235:
- Mrs. Longman-Tompkinson, apprehensive of being outglittered in a single spangle, by the gilt gingerbread of the Broadway, was labouring like a recruiting-sergeant to increase her forces, with favours flying and beat of drum […]