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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