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Look up glister in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glister may refer to: Glister (Forgotten Realms), a fictional city in the Forgotten Realms. Glister, a 2008 novel by John Burnside, published as The Glister in the United States. Category: Disambiguation pages.
The earliest known use of the verb glister is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for glister is from around 1380, in Sir Ferumbras . glister is a word inherited from Germanic.
The modern English word "glitter" comes from the Middle English word gliteren, possibly by way of the Old Norse word glitra. However, as early as 30,000 years ago, mica flakes were used to give cave paintings a glittering appearance. [1]
OED's earliest evidence for glister is from 1535, in Biblia: the Bible. It is also recorded as a verb from the Middle English period (1150—1500). glister is formed within English, by conversion.
The meaning of GLISTER is glitter. “Glister.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glister.Accessed 24 May ...
Glister is probably from the Middle Dutch variant of the word. Glitzy , ‘showily attractive’, first appeared in the USA in the 1960s. It was based on glitter, and probably influenced by ritzy and perhaps also by German glitzerig ‘glittering’.
While early expressions of the idea are known from at least the 12th–13th century, the current saying is derived from a 16th-century line by William Shakespeare, " All that glisters is not gold ".
