Definition of "gaud" in English

noun

1. A cheap showy trinket

   • Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.

2. (obsolete) trick; jest; sport

3. (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice

verb

1. (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

verb

1. To sport or keep festival.