What does "gaudy" mean?
Gaudy: Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.
- 3.A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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