Definition of "gaud" [gaud]

• A gaudy or showy ornament or trinket. (noun)

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• "Such gaud is characteristic of the spiritual harlot (Re 17: 4)."
• "His clothes were not precisely gaud. v, but the republican simplicity of Neuvamerica found them barbaric -- high-collared blouse, baggy blue trousers tucked into soft half boots, surcoat embroidered with twined snakes and flowers, a silver dragon brooch."
• "Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait -- bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life."