[ɡɔːd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a showy and purely ornamental thing
(e.g: displays of overpriced gauds)


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Origin:
Middle English (denoting a trick or pretence): perhaps via Anglo-Norman French from Old French gaudir ‘rejoice’, from Latin gaudere; perhaps influenced by obsolete gaud ‘ornamental bead in a rosary’