gaud
Example Sentences
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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 excludes boasting; it is pure, peaceable and loving; it is far removed from the glare and gaud of the world, it is full of Calvary, Olivet, and Pentecost.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
Satan: I do not ask your soul, only that shining gaud.
From Plays of Near & Far by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
