gaud
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gaud
1300–50; Middle English, perhaps < Anglo-French, noun use of gaudir to rejoice < Latin gaudēre to enjoy
Example Sentences
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Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics.
From Time Magazine Archive
With sumptuous production values and characters who spent every available petrodollar, Dallas elevated conspicuous consumption to a secular religion: gaud almighty.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is frequently seen dressed in fantastic gaud, seated in a brilliant howdah atop a huge elephant, with his sceptre in one hand, and a Rolleiflex camera in the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
A gaud she had worn in her dusky hair— A paper rose.
From Out of the North by Sutherland, Howard V. (Howard Vigne)
Upon one polished forearm a bracelet was pressed, a gaud formed from one immense emerald cut in a fashion that forced one to doubt the existence of such a cutter in mortal form.
From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward
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