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Gaudy
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak.
2. Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.