All 4 Uses
gaudy
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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- Today I would say it was gaudy and unbefitting a widow, but then a matchmaker is not like a regular woman.†
Chpt 3 *gaudy = tastelessly showy
- It was smaller in size and less gaudy in its decoration.†
Chpt 5
- What a sight we must have been: two old sames on their first excursion, trying to walk on remembered feet with only exhilaration to keep them from falling, and an older woman dressed in a gaudy outfit yelling at them, "Stop that bad behavior, or we'll go home right now!†
Chpt 5
- She let people know she was unassailable by wearing powder to cover what beauty may have lain in her face and dressing in gaudy clothes to set her apart from the married women in our county.†
Chpt 17
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.