noun
- showy ornaments or decorations; trinkets or baubles
Usage: archaic or literary
Examples
- The wealthy merchant’s home was filled with gauds and expensive trinkets.
- She preferred simple jewelry to flashy gauds.
- The theater costume was adorned with colorful gauds and sequins.
- He dismissed such gauds as meaningless displays of wealth.
- The antique shop displayed various gauds from different eras.
- Medieval nobles often wore gauds to show their status.