gaud

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Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It lies no weight upon her breast— It speaks no warning to her heart— It lends no guiding light—at best Is but a gaud in Folly’s mart.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

"A toy, a mere gaud, your Excellency," said the shrewd interpreter, giving Winslow a title which he would not have employed had there been any one present of higher rank than the New England Colonel.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir