gaud

Example Sentences

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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

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

There it lay, a glittering gaud; but he had seen a piece of glass that threw out colours as divinely.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

"A toy, a mere gaud, your Excellency," said the shrewd interpreter, giving Winslow a title which he would not have employed had there been any one present of higher rank than the New England Colonel.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir