What does gaud mean?
Gaud means A cheap showy trinket.
Gaud
/ɡɔːd/ · noun
Meaning
A cheap showy trinket.
Definitions by Sense
- A cheap showy trinket
- (obsolete) trick; jest; sport
- (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
- (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
- To sport or keep festival.
Example Sentences
Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.
an idle gaud
A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.
Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.
Nicely gauded cheeks.
gauding with his familiars
Synonyms for gaud
Antonyms for gaud
Related Words
Word Forms
- gauds
- gauding
- gauded
Usage Notes
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a synonym for gaud?
Common synonyms include fallal, bauble, trinket, bangle.
What is the opposite of gaud?
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
How do you use gaud in a sentence?
Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.
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