gaudy
/ˈɡɔ.di/ noun C2- A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.
Plural gaudies
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This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.
The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of their proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine,--with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
He found the count standing before some copies of Albano and Fattore that had been passed off to the banker as originals; but which, mere copies as they were, seemed to feel their degradation in being brought into juxtaposition with the gaudy colors that covered the ceiling.
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