Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak.
Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.
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