gewgawry
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gewgawry (uncountable)
- Gaudiness; ornamentation, show.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 272:
- [R]eligion […] here consists almost entirely of external show and gewgawry, of bowings, courtesies, and various gesticulations […] .