tinselry (tinselri)

[ We found the bats flying about in the arches above and behind the altar, and priests and boys firing guns at them, among the poor tinselry of the worship, with results more damaging to "bell, book, and candle" than birds. S. Bowles , Our New West, xxvii. Same as tinsel2 . tinsent (tin'sn), n . tinseyt (tin'si), a . [A var. of tinsel2 , simulating an adj. term. -ly ; cf. tinselly .] Same as tinsel2 . The mock finery of the actors, who were "Strutting round their Balconies in their Tinsey Robes." Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [I. 250.