Sekirov Dictionary

gaud

/ɡɔːd/

noun 3
verb 2
forms 4

noun3

•
A cheap showy trinket
- 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. — 1922
(no longer used) deceit; fraud; artifice
(no longer used) trick; jest; sport

verb2

To sport or keep festival.
•
(no longer used) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
- Nicely gauded cheeks. — 1608

forms

gauded · gauding · gauds · gawds

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