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Tawdries

Tawdry \Taw"dry\, n.; pl. Tawdries. A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. [Obs.]

Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks.
--Drayton.