gaud

A cheap showy trinket

an idle gaud

A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.

trick; jest; sport

deceit; fraud; artifice

To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

Nicely gauded cheeks.

To sport or keep festival.

gauding with his familiars