Both Uses
gaudy
in
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
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- An Arab woman—a nurse, I supposed—was sitting beside the bier; she was wearing a blue smock and had a rather gaudy scarf wound round her hair.†
Chpt 1.1 *gaudy = tastelessly showy
- When I was brought back next day, the electric fans were still churning up the heavy air and the jurymen plying their gaudy little fans in a sort of steady rhythm.†
Chpt 2.4
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.