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

Shall this mindless wretch enjoy in his sleep a jewelled gaud while his poor old grandfather is thirsty?

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

Upon one polished forearm a bracelet was pressed, a gaud formed from one immense emerald cut in a fashion that forced one to doubt the existence of such a cutter in mortal form.

From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward