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glittering

 adjective
     
glit‧ter‧ing [usually before noun]
1 giving off many small flashes of light [= sparkling]:
glittering jewels
2 very successful:
a glittering career
3 connected with rich, famous and fashionable people:
a glittering Hollywood premiere
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