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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gaud /gɔːd/

▶noun archaic a showy and purely ornamental thing.

– origin ME (denoting a trick or pretence): perh. via Anglo-Norman Fr. from OFr. gaudir ‘rejoice’, from L. gaudere.

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