gaud
a showy ornament or trinket.
Origin of gaud
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How to use gaud in a sentence
We are not in a part of the world where our ensigns and gauds ought to be spread abroad to the wind, Mabel Dunham!
The Pathfinder | James Fenimore CooperShe will be much too beautiful to need the gauds of fashion.
A rosary, the coral beads of which were divided by smaller ones, or gauds, of a green colour.
Chaucer for Children | Mrs. H. R. HaweisAh, I know well I struggled like the rest for gauds and honours, but they were only tools for my ambition.
The Path of the King | John BuchanMy sisters soon ceased to pine for the impossible, and contented themselves with other antique gauds.
Silver Pitchers: and Independence | Louisa May Alcott
British Dictionary definitions for gaud
/ (ɡɔːd) /
an article of cheap finery; trinket; bauble
Origin of gaud
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