gaudy
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Is gaudy a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of gaudy?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Fun; merry; festive.Examples: "Let's have one other gaudy night."; "And for my strange petition I will make Amends hereafter by some gaudy day"; "And then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw..."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (archaic) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.Examples: "In 1458, the owner of the precious book, which had been taken from the martyr’s body at the block, left a rosary of 50 coral beads with gold gaudies, to his “beloved, most blessed Saint Richard Scrope,” to help in his canonization, with a prayer to God that it might be granted of His great grace."; "The circling year was to him like the rosary over which he recited his aves and paternosters; the “gaudies” or larger beads were the holidays set at regular intervals along the string, […]"; "She wore a coral trinket on her arms, / A set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, / Whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen […]"archaic
noun (English)
1. (Oxford University) A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.
Definition source: Wiktionary