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How to use gaud in a sentence
With gaud and gaudy, which are the same words as good and cadi, may be connoted gaudeo the Latin for I rejoice.
ARCHAIC ENGLANDHAROLD BAYLEYShall this mindless wretch enjoy in his sleep a jewelled gaud while his poor old grandfather is thirsty?
THE ENGLISH STAGEAUGUSTIN FILONWhere got you that rich gaud for covering, that spangled shell—a tortoise living in the mountains?
HESIOD, THE HOMERIC HYMNS, AND HOMERICAHOMER AND HESIODHer secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCEAn image, decked in all the glare of gaud and tinsel, looked out of a glazed niche in the opposite wall.
THE RIFLE RANGERSCAPTAIN MAYNE REIDBut she never 'ad nobody to leave her money, poor dear child, except me, please Gaud.
THE GREY WIG: STORIES AND NOVELETTESISRAEL ZANGWILLThe accurate origin of the various senses which this word and the substantive “gaud” have taken are somewhat difficult to trace.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 11, SLICE 5VARIOUSThere it lay, a glittering gaud; but he had seen a piece of glass that threw out colours as divinely.
THE PRISONERALICE BROWNThere is another stem gaud, supposed to mean Goth, very liable to intermix.
SURNAMES AS A SCIENCEROBERT FERGUSONA child happening to pass, came to her rescue: "Good-day, Mademoiselle Gaud!"
AN ICELAND FISHERMANPIERRE LOTIWORDS RELATED TO GAUD
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