All 3 Uses
gaudy
in
The Help
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- It was Kiki Brown's morning for cleaning and the whole church is gaudied up with her lemon smell-good she makes and tries to sell for twenty-five cents a bottle.†
Chpt 10
- She goes in the bathroom and dabs some more rouge on her gaudy cheeks.†
Chpt 24 *gaudy = tastelessly showy
- The room is gaudy with gowns, red roses, silver service clinking.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(gaudy) tastelessly showy
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(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.