What does "gaud" mean?

Gaud: Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Additional senses

  1. 2.An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.
  2. 3.To sport or keep festival. [Obs.] "Gauding with his familiars. " [Obs.] Sir T. North.
  3. 4.To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [Obs.] "Nicely gauded cheeks." Shak.

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