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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 532 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GAUDY , an See also:

adjective meaning showy, very See also:bright, See also:gay, especially with a sense of tasteless or vulgar extravagance, of See also:colour or See also:ornament. The accurate origin of the various senses which this word and the substantive " gaud " have taken are somewhat difficult to trace. They are all ultimately to be referred to the See also:Lat. gaudere, to rejoice, gaudium, joy, some of them directly, others to the See also:French derivative gaudir, to rejoice, and O.Fr. gaudie. ,As a noun, in the sense of rejoicing or feast, " gaudy " is still used of a See also:commemoration See also:dinner at a See also:college at the university of See also:Oxford. " Gaud," meaning generally a See also:toy, a gay adornment, a piece of showy See also:jewelry, is more specifically applied to larger and more decorative beads in a See also:rosary.

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