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

Now, that the ending gaud, with its alternative forms got, caud, cot, is present in French names as well as in English will be clearly seen from the following.

From Surnames as a Science by Ferguson, Robert

Terry ate under the sorrowing eyes of the faithful woman, and when he finished he presented her with the only gaud that remained to him, the gold medallion from his fob.

From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Thomson, Charles Goff