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[gốdē]
(adj.)Showy in a tasteless or vulgar way.
(n.)Chiefly British A feast, especially an annual university
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Gaudy - Definition of Gaudy at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Gaudy. Look it up now! ... brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.
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Gaudy or Gaudie (from the Latin, "gaudium", meaning "enjoyment" or "merry-making") is a term used typical to reflect student life in a number of the ancient universities in the United Kingdom. It i...
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Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the twelfth in her popular series about gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane. The women ...
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'Gaudy Night,' Dorothy Sayers' penultimate novel in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, was originally intended to be the last. Unlike the rest of the series, ... Harriet returns to Shrewsbury College to take part in the annual Gaudy night, something a bit like our own college reunions, not quite sure what to expect.
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Weekly etymology webzine ... First, it is thought that gaudy comes from a color term from Middle English, gaudy-green, which itself originated because the plant which produced the dye was once known as weld, and weld, when borrowed into Old French, became gaude - hence English gaudy-green.
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Definition of gaudy (gaudier, gaudiest) in the AudioEnglish.net Dictionary. Meaning of gaudy. What does gaudy mean? Proper usage and pronunciation (in phonetic transcription) of the word gaudy. Information about gaudy in the AudioEnglish.net dictionary, synonyms and antonyms. ... • GAUDY (noun); The noun GAUDY has 1 sense:
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Dear Word Detective: I was recently told that the word "gaudy" comes from the name of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi. I find this hard to believe as he died in the late 1920s and it seems to me that this word is of older origin.
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