Gaud [noun]

With gaud and gaudy, which are the same words as good and cadi, may be connoted gaudeo the Latin for I rejoice.

Shall this mindless wretch enjoy in his sleep a jewelled gaud while his poor old grandfather is thirsty?

Where got you that rich gaud for covering, that spangled shell—a tortoise living in the mountains?

Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.

An image, decked in all the glare of gaud and tinsel, looked out of a glazed niche in the opposite wall.

But she never 'ad nobody to leave her money, poor dear child, except me, please Gaud.

The accurate origin of the various senses which this word and the substantive “gaud” have taken are somewhat difficult to trace.

There it lay, a glittering gaud; but he had seen a piece of glass that threw out colours as divinely.

There is another stem gaud, supposed to mean Goth, very liable to intermix.

A child happening to pass, came to her rescue: "Good-day, Mademoiselle Gaud!"