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View synonyms for gaud
gaud
[ gawd ]
noun
- a showy ornament or trinket.
gaud
/ ɡɔːd /
noun
- an article of cheap finery; trinket; bauble
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gaud1
1300–50; Middle English, perhaps < Anglo-French, noun use of gaudir to rejoice < Latin gaudēre to enjoy
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gaud1
C14: probably from Old French gaudir to be joyful, from Latin gaudēre
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Example Sentences
With gaud and gaudy, which are the same words as good and cadi, may be connoted gaudeo the Latin for I rejoice.
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Shall this mindless wretch enjoy in his sleep a jewelled gaud while his poor old grandfather is thirsty?
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Where got you that rich gaud for covering, that spangled shell—a tortoise living in the mountains?
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Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.
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An image, decked in all the glare of gaud and tinsel, looked out of a glazed niche in the opposite wall.
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