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glitz

[glits] Slang.
–noun
1. ostentatious glitter or sophistication: a cocktail lounge noted for its glitz.
–verb (used with object)
2. to add a showy sophistication to (often fol. by up): They glitzed up the lobby with a couple of fountains and a birdcage.

Origin:
1970–75; perh. b. glitter and ritz
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glitz   (glĭts)   
n.  Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" (Peter G. Davis).
tr.v.   glitz·ed, glitz·ing, glitz·es
To invest with an ostentatiously showy quality: "have started to glitz up their shows with filmed backdrops" (Bill Barol).

[Back-formation from glitzy, flashy, showy, probably from German glitzern, to glitter, from Middle High German glitzen, to shine, from Old High German glīzan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
glitz'i·ness n., glitz'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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glitz [glɪts]

  1. n.
    flashiness and glamour. : The place was a morass of eager sales geeks and phony glitz.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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