Adjective, : gaudy plumage. From Dictionary.com.
All the domain with treasure of empery gaudily flushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
As at Push, they lived in thatched timber houses, gaudily painted. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Scotch ladies, who attired themselves more gaudily than English women. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
He commenced by paying our gaudily-attired friend some florid compliments. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
An hundred gaudily-decorated drinking saloon are filled with gaudier-dressed men. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
In a room gaudily decorated and painted, was the following very appropriate motto. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The doctor paused a moment, and then, holding out the gaudily-colored sweater, asked. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck] Reference
But what else had he expected — presenting her with that gaudily over-the-top ring?. From Wordnik.com. [Pregnant by the Millionaire]
Even without a gaudily lighted and trimmed tree, the Bunkers were pleased in every way. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference
Stockily built mechanics swaggered along with their simpering, gaudily dressed lady loves. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
At the head marched a girl bearing an icon of the Madonna, gaudily painted and bedecked with jewels. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
He saw one picturesque feature, a wooden building in a style which seemed half Asian, gaudily painted. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
You got into this "-- she indicated the gaudily furnished house by a gesture," with your eyes wide open. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Holding two gaudily wrapped packages, the Portuguese looked as discomposed and disgusted as he himself felt. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
Mary would hold up something of staple quality, but they would shake their heads and turn to something gaudily wrapped. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
When he got there, he took the side street beside the gaudily flagged car lot and turned in at the anonymous driveway behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
He was not gaudily dressed like a vaquero, but everything he wore was possessed of a certain richness and was not lacking in color. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
Inside was reclining a wax figure of our Saviour, gaudily dressed in silk and velvet; and there were also representations of the Last. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
In the Corso we see a kind of temporary theatre, the deal sides of which are gaudily lined with Catania silk, and on its stage a whole. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
He was a young man uniformed so splendidly, so gaudily, that he had earned the nickname given by the British troops to any fine dandy. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
The policeman and the gaudily dressed man walked over to the two politicians, who also shook hands as camera flashes popped around them. From Wordnik.com. [The Messenger, Chapter 1] Reference
Nature at this period is so gaudily clad that we may admire her for her excessive variety of tints, but cannot dare to copy her absolutely. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath] Reference
The gaudily-dressed man was accompanied by two natives, and all rode mules, and there were three other animals, laden with packs on either side. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
She was fairly conspicuous; there were few pedestrians this far from the city, and as Thark had told her often enough, she did dress rather gaudily. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference
With a baulk of timber from the Royal Engineers we finished it, and at the same time shifted the wheels to a beautiful pair of gaudily-painted iron ones from Durban. From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
Finally, the Salle de Spectacle completes the modern additions, and, while gaudily striking, is scarcely above the taste of a gilded café in some pompous Préfecture. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
Theatres of every grade abound, from the Grand Opera House down to the poor little café chantant, where gaudily-dressed females electrify the audience with popular ballads. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
'See what I have found dangling from a tree in the forest;' and he held up for his friend's inspection a tiny pair of leather moccasins gaudily embroidered with coloured beads. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Now and then women passed, but they, also, were of the night, gaudily bedecked in tinsel and glittering finery that would have been fustian by day to the least discriminating eye. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
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