gaudery
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gaudery (countable and uncountable, plural gauderies)
- finery; ornaments
- ostentatious display; gaudiness
- 1674, John Dryden, Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the New House:
- tarnished gaudery
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References edit
- “gaudery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.