All 4 Uses

gaudy
in
As I Lay Dying
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The horse snorts, then Jewel sees him, glinting for a gaudy instant among the blue shadows.†
Chpt 3 *

gaudy = tastelessly showy
I see him dissolve—legs, a rolling eye, a gaudy splotching like cold flames and float upon the dark in fading solution; all one yet neither; all either yet none.†
Chpt 13
He is down there in the barn, sliding fluidly past the gaudy lunging swirl, into the stall with it.†
Chpt 42
Its head flashes back, tooth-cropped; its eyes roll in the dusk like marbles on a gaudy velvet cloth as he strikes it upon the face with the back of the curry-comb.†
Chpt 42

Definitions:

(1) (gaudy)
tastelessly showy
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, in classic literature gaudy can refer to something that is extravagantly showy without the implication that it is tasteless. Even more rarely, it can refer to a celebratory feast held by a college.