gaud
Example Sentences
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Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics.
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
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
A mere gaud of a purple stone; but they do say it would be worth a thousand pounds if one had it in London.
From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
She flushed first of all with a natural pleasure, the girl delighting in her gaud.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
