Definitions
cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Word origin
From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.
Used in a sentence
“an idle gaud”
“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.”
“Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Cheap trinket”4 letters
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