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gaud
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synonyms: frippery, gewgaw, kickshaw, trumpery, brimborion, fallal, gimcrack, bibelot ???
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Definition:a cheap showy trinket. They tend to be gaudy.
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the whole tumultuous rush has passed and the Iping street with its gauds and flags is deserted save for the still raging unseen, and littered with cocoanuts, overthrown canvas screens, and the scattered stock in trade of a sweetstuff stall.
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That Dolly, she was grieved to say, was no less backward in her contributions, better loving, as it seemed, to purchase ribbons and such gauds, than to encourage the great cause, then in such heavy tribulation;
Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge (1841)
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Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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