Gaud"y (?), a.
[Compar. Gaudier (?);
superl. Gauidiest.] 1.
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.
2. Gay; merry; festal.
Tennyson.
Let's have one other gaudy night.
Shak.Gaud"y, n.; pl.
Gaudies (#) [See Gaud, n.]
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is
recited. [Obs.] Gower.
Gaud"y, n. A feast or festival; --
called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford
Univ.] Conybeare.