Gaudy

Definitions

1. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
   archaic
2. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.

Equivalents

Examples

“In 1458, the owner of the precious book, which had been taken from the martyr’s body at the block⟳, left a rosary of 50 coral beads with gold gaudies, to his “beloved, most blessed Saint Richard Scrope,” to help⟳ in his canonization, with a prayer to God that it might be granted of His great grace.”

“The circling year was to him like⟳ the rosary over which he recited his aves and paternosters; the “gaudies” or larger beads were the holidays set⟳ at regular intervals along the string, […]”

“She wore a coral trinket on her arms, / A set⟳ of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, / Whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen […]”

“And since then, Mary had married and scarcely been heard of; except that she had haunted the College with a sick persistence, never missing an Old Students’ Meeting or a Gaudy.”

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