as in to gleam
to shoot forth bursts of light
under a canopy of winkling stars, the campers bedded down for the night
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But whenever things turn too lapidary, the image will change to Sergio charging up a sheer hill or Gianfranco trying to winkle another thousand euros out of a chef.
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Helen Shaw, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
The pleasures of Glenconner’s tales must be winkled out of her sturdy if occasionally clichéd prose: revelations of the strange juxtapositions of an unexpectedly upstairs-downstairs aristocratic life.
—Alida Becker, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
Helen Shaw, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
The pleasures of Glenconner’s tales must be winkled out of her sturdy if occasionally clichéd prose: revelations of the strange juxtapositions of an unexpectedly upstairs-downstairs aristocratic life.
—Alida Becker, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
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“Winkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/winkle. Accessed 14 Sep. 2024.
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