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gaud

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6
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4
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/ɡɔːd/
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Definition of gaud

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A cheap showy trinket
    “an idle gaud”
    “A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.”
    “Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.”
    “Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.”
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noun

  1. A cheap showy trinket
    “an idle gaud”
    “A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.”
    “Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.”
    “Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.”
  2. (obsolete)trick; jest; sport
  3. (obsolete)deceit; fraud; artifice

verb

  1. (obsolete)To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
    “Nicely gauded cheeks.”
  2. To sport or keep festival.
    “gauding with his familiars”

name

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Gaur (“ancient Bengali city”).

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Etymology

From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.

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