Gaud"y (?), a. [Compar. Gaudier (?); superl. Gauidiest.] 1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.
Shak.
2. Gay; merry; festal.
Tennyson.
Let's have one other gaudy night.
Shak.
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Gaud"y, n.; pl. Gaudies (#) [See Gaud, n.] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.]
Gower.
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Gaud"y, n. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.]
Conybeare.
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