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gaudery

[ gaw-duh-ree ]

noun

plural gauderies.
  1. ostentatious show.
  2. finery; gaudy or showy things:

    a fashionable dandy and his gaudery.



gaudery

/ ˈɡɔːəɪ /

noun

  1. cheap finery or display
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of gaudery1

First recorded in 1520–30; gaud + -ery
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The others for their gay gaudery,—the bonny reid and blue o' them.

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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.

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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.

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I see Her silly, soulless eyes and horrid hair; In which new gauderies you'll forget sad me!

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His Majesty's Repository, what they call Garde-Meuble, is forced and ransacked: tapestries enough, and gauderies; but of serviceable fighting-gear small stock!

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