1. Showy or tasteless ornaments; cheap, flashy decorations or trinkets.
Usage: Usually plural; refers to objects that are bright or colorful but lack elegance or quality.
2. Excessive or vulgar display; garishness or showiness.
Usage: Abstract sense referring to the quality of being ostentatiously decorated or adorned.

Examples

• The carnival booth was filled with plastic gauderies that caught the children's eyes.
• She decorated her room with colorful gauderies from the dollar store.
• The mansion's interior was criticized for its excessive gauderies rather than timeless elegance.
• Tourist shops often sell gauderies as souvenirs.
• Despite the gauderies covering the walls, the house lacked any real charm.
• He preferred simple furniture to rooms cluttered with gauderies.