Crossword clues for gaud
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gaud \Gaud\, n. [OE. gaude jest, trick, gaudi bead of a rosary, fr. L. gaudium joy, gladness. See Joy.]
Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. ``An idle gaud.''
--Shak.
Gaud \Gaud\, v. i. [Cf. F. se gaudir to rejoice, fr. L. gaudere.
See Gaud, n.]
To sport or keep festival. [Obs.] ``Gauding with his
familiars. '' [Obs.]
--Sir T. North.
Gaud \Gaud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gauded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gauding.]
To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets
or colors; to paint. [Obs.] ``Nicely gauded cheeks.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "jest, joke, prank, trick;" also "fraud, deception, trick, artifice." Also "large, ornamental bead in a rosary" (mid-14c.); a bauble, trinket, plaything" (mid-15c.). In some senses, from gaudy (n.) (see gaudy). In some, from Latin gaudium "joy," gaude "rejoice thou" (in hymns), or from Old French gaudie, noun of action from gaudir. As a verb, "to furnish with gauds," from late 14c. Related: Gauded; gauding.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 a cheap showy trinket 2 (context obsolete English) trick; jest; sport 3 (context obsolete English) deceit; fraud; artifice vb. (context obsolete English) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint. Etymology 2
vb. To sport or keep festival.
WordNet
Usage examples of "gaud".
Iselle wrapped the silk around the gauds and shoved them across the table to Cazaril.
Turquoise Gates, laden with spices, silks, jewels, and slaves, the goods and gauds of India and Cathay, of Persia and Arabia and Egypt.
But the grim Gael scorned these gauds, seeming to derive his only pleasures from hard fighting and hard drinking.
Plays with the baubles and the gauds of earth -- Wealth, power, and fame -- Nor knows that in the twelvemonth after birth He did the same.
Suvin despised gauds of that sort: or if she stooped to them, she made sure they far surpassed anything else a rival might find.
He grunted when he was jostled by a hurrying purveyor of marvelously-wrought gauds of glass beads and amber and the teeth of sea-dogs.
He grunted when he was jostled by a hurrying purveyor of marvelously-wrought gauds of glass beads and amber and the teeth of sea-dogs.
Babylonians came, greased and gauded, brought wine and cheese and loved the party.
He had far rather wear small earrings of gold with flawless gemstones than ornate brass gauded with glass.
And when Iranon had wept over the grave of Romnod and strewn it with green branches, such as Romnod used to love, he put aside his silks and gauds and went forgotten out of Oonai the city of lutes and dancing clad only in the ragged purple in which he had come, and garlanded with fresh vines from the mountains.