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gaud
UK /ɡɔːd/ US /ɡɔd/
noun 3verb 2name 1
Collocations
1ADJ.
idle
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
trick; jest; sport
3
deceit; fraud; artifice
verb
1
To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
Nicely gauded cheeks.
verb
1
To sport or keep festival.
gauding with his familiars
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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an idle gaud
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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, uncoffl
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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.
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Nicely gauded cheeks.
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gauding with his familiars
Wiktionary06
But the girl isn't interested in the Palace of Gaudí.
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