gaud

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Quotations 1.2 Related terms

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[edit] Noun

gaud (plural gauds)

1. a cheap showy trinket

[edit] Quotations

• 1926 Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war. - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[edit] Related terms

• gaudy