Meaning of gaud | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cheap showy trinket
2. trick; jest; sport
   obsolete
3. deceit; fraud; artifice
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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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