gaud
Example Sentences
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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
Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again they’ll turn me in your arms To a red het gaud of airn; But hold me fast, and fear me not, I’ll do to you nae harm.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank
The members of the Council in 1862 subscribed £200 for the purchase of a "Mayor's Chain," the first to wear "the glittering gaud," strange to say, being a Quaker, Charles Sturge to wit.
From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.
