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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 458 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAWDRY , an See also:

adjective used to characterize cheap finery, and especially things which imitate in a cheap way that which is See also:rich or costly, or adornments of which the freshness and elegance have worn off. The word is first used in See also:combination in the phrase " tawdry See also:lace," a shortened See also:form or corruption of St Audrey's or St Awdrey's lace. St Audrey was St Etheldreda, who founded See also:Ely See also:cathedral, and it is generally accepted that tawdry-laces or tawdries were necklaces bought at St Audrey's See also:Fair on the 17th of See also:October. See also:Nares (Glossary to the See also:Works of See also:English Authors, 1859) gives as an alternativethe See also:story that the See also:saint died of a swelling in the See also:throat, which she took as a See also:judgment for having worn See also:fine necklaces in her youth.

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