gaudery
Americannoun
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ostentatious show.
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finery; gaudy or showy things.
a fashionable dandy and his gaudery.
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The simple street happenings, the busy life and movements, the glare and gaudery of the lights, were as curious to us as if we had never landed before.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.
But thou can'st mask in garish gaudery, To suit a fool's far-fetched livery.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy
But above all, that of the triumph, amongst the Romans, was not pageants or gaudery, but one of the wisest and noblest institutions, that ever was.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis
I see Her silly, soulless eyes and horrid hair; In which new gauderies you'll forget sad me!
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
His Majesty's Repository, what they call Garde-Meuble, is forced and ransacked: tapestries enough, and gauderies; but of serviceable fighting-gear small stock!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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