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
There is another stem gaud, supposed to mean Goth, very liable to intermix.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
“No; too much gaud and glitter for that.”
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
