Synonyms for gauds
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gawd |
| Phonetic Transcription : gɔd |
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Définition of gauds
Origin :- late 14c., "jest, joke, prank, trick;" also "fraud, deception, trick, artifice." Also "large, ornamental bead in a rosary" (mid-14c.); a bauble, trinket, plaything" (mid-15c.). In some senses, from gaudy (n.) (see gaudy). In some, from Latin gaudium "joy," gaude "rejoice thou" (in hymns), or from Old French gaudie, noun of action from gaudir. As a verb, "to furnish with gauds," from late 14c. Related: Gauded; gauding.
- As in bibelot : noun trinket
- These gauds of the fashionable world have no real attraction for her.
- Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
- There was lacking no pomp of War, War who must have gauds with which to hide his naked horror.
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- To which he replied that with the gauds of worldly success he had no concern.
- Extract from : « Aladdin & Co. » by Herbert Quick
- It is not my pleasure to advertise my quality by the gauds on my garb.
- Extract from : « The Lost Continent » by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
- She will be much too beautiful to need the gauds of fashion.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, February 14, 1917 » by Various
- And Margaret felt no shadow of regret at thought of the gauds and fripperies of a fashionable wedding which would not be hers.
- Extract from : « Pearl of Pearl Island » by John Oxenham
- America is not given to jewelry, gauds or trappings, but those familiar with the business say that she has a seal ring.
- Extract from : « Witty Pieces by Witty People » by Various
- Those who communicate with Europeans display beads, rings, bracelets, and other gauds instead.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) » by George Warburton
- She was capricious, vain, aware of her beauty, and sighing for the pleasures or the gauds beyond her reach.
- Extract from : « The Parisians, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- I would not live in London for all the gauds in the goldsmith's shops, or all the treasures in King Edward's vaults.
- Extract from : « Harold, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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