gaud

Example Sentences

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Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is frequently seen dressed in fantastic gaud, seated in a brilliant howdah atop a huge elephant, with his sceptre in one hand, and a Rolleiflex camera in the other.

From Time Magazine Archive

With sumptuous production values and characters who spent every available petrodollar, Dallas elevated conspicuous consumption to a secular religion: gaud almighty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hail to victory without the gaud   Of glory; zeal that needs no fans Of banners; plain mechanic power Plied cogently in War now placed—       Where War belongs—   Among the trades and artisans.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

A gaud she had worn in her dusky hair— A paper rose.

From Out of the North by Sutherland, Howard V. (Howard Vigne)