[f. TINSEL sb.3 + -RY.] Showy and tawdry material or ornamentation.
1830. S. Warren, Diary Physic. (1838), I. xiii. 258. The ghastly visage of Death, thus leering through the tinselry of passion,… was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life!
1869. S. Bowles, New West, xxvii. 518. The poor tinselry of the worship.
