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

All things great may life afford, Praise, power, love, high pomp, fair gaud, Till the banquet be toward Hath this king.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

“No; too much gaud and glitter for that.”

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne