All 3 Uses of
gaudy
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- Branching out from this complete and satisfying centre are all the auxiliary channels of his life, such as his heartiness with men, his appreciation of rough humour, his low of good drink and food and games, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer.†
Scene 3.1
- The table is sloppy with remains of breakfast and the debris of the preceding night, and Stanley's gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold of the bathroom.†
Scene 3.4 *
- She is a blind Mexican woman in a dark shawl, carrying bunches of those gaudy tin flowers that lower-class Mexicans display at funerals and other festive occasions.†
Scene 3.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(gaudy) tastelessly showy
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(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.