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gaud

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"Cheap trinket"

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4 lettersPronunciation /ɡɔːd/Part of speech nounSorted adguStarts with GEnds with D1 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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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