gaud
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gaud
1300–50; Middle English, perhaps < Anglo-French, noun use of gaudir to rejoice < Latin gaudēre to enjoy
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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
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
Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics.
From Time Magazine Archive
There it lay, a glittering gaud; but he had seen a piece of glass that threw out colours as divinely.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
I. Young Jockey was the blythest lad In a’ our town or here awa: Fu’ blythe he whistled at the gaud, Fu’ lightly danced he in the ha’.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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