noun
- a showy ornament or decoration, especially one that is cheap or tasteless
Usage: often used disparagingly
Examples
- The tourist shop was filled with colorful gauds and souvenirs.
- She preferred simple jewelry to flashy gauds.
- The room was decorated with various gauds that caught the light.
- He dismissed the expensive watch as merely another gaud.
- The carnival booth displayed rows of cheap gauds as prizes.
- Her taste ran to elegant simplicity rather than gaudy baubles and gauds.