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gaudy

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gaudy
Brit a celebratory festival or feast held at some schools and colleges


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But there were vacant seats here and there, and into one of them she was ushered, between brilliantly dressed women who had gone there to kill time and eat candy and display their gaudy attire.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
Heaven knows what gaudy sentimental parade we made in our borrowed plumes, but if the travesty had kept itself to the written word it would have been all well enough.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
Verily, ever are we drawn aloft--that is, to the realm of the clouds: on these do we set our gaudy puppets, and then call them Gods and Supermen:--
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
 
 
 
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