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GAUDY

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 532 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GAUDY , an
adjective
  meaning showy, very
bright
 , gay, especially with a sense of tasteless or vulgar extravagance, of colour or
ornament
 . The accurate origin of the various senses which this word and the substantive " gaud " have taken are somewhat difficult to trace. They are all ultimately to be referred to the Lat. gaudere, to rejoice, gaudium, joy, some of them directly, others to the
French
  derivative gaudir, to rejoice, and O.Fr. gaudie. ,As a noun, in the sense of rejoicing or feast, " gaudy " is still used of a commemoration
dinner
  at a
college
  at the university of
Oxford
 . " Gaud," meaning generally a toy, a gay adornment, a piece of showy
jewelry
 , is more specifically applied to larger and more decorative beads in a rosary.


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