gaud

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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Where got you that rich gaud for covering, that spangled shell—a tortoise living in the mountains?

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

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