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   gaud

   /ɡôd/

   noun

   • 1. a showy and purely ornamental thing: archaic "displays of overpriced gauds"

   Word Origin Middle English (denoting a trick or pretense): perhaps via Anglo-Norman French from Old French gaudir ‘rejoice’, from Latin gaudere; perhaps influenced by obsolete gaud ‘ornamental bead in a rosary’.

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • G

     2

   • A

     1

   • U

     1

   • D

     2

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