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TAWDRY

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 458 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TAWDRY , an
adjective
  used to characterize cheap finery, and especially things which imitate in a cheap way that which is
rich
  or costly, or adornments of which the freshness and elegance have worn off. The word is first used in combination in the phrase " tawdry lace," a shortened form or corruption of St Audrey's or St Awdrey's lace. St Audrey was St Etheldreda, who founded Ely
cathedral
 , and it is generally accepted that tawdry-laces or tawdries were necklaces bought at St Audrey's
Fair
  on the 17th of October. Nares (Glossary to the Works of
English
  Authors, 1859) gives as an alternativethe story that the saint died of a swelling in the
throat
 , which she took as a judgment for having worn fine necklaces in her youth.


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