outglitter

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ glitter

Verb[edit]

outglitter (third-person singular simple present outglitters, present participle outglittering, simple past and past participle outglittered)

  1. (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 []