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81ornament — n 1. decoration, frill, filigree, flourish, flounce, furbelow; tinsel, spangle; bauble, trinket, knickknack, gimcrack, gewgaw, Inf. doodad, Inf. fandangle; accessory, attachment. 2. finery, frippery, frills, frills and furbelows, folderol,… …
82ornamentation — n 1. adornment, embellishment. See ornament(def. 4). 2. finery, frippery, frilliness, frills, frills and furbelows, folderol, trumpery, gaudery, fuss, Inf. foo faraw, Sl. jazz; ostentation, meretriciousness, flamboyance, showiness, show,… …
83vulgarity — n 1. ignorance, unsophistication, unawareness, naTvete, naTveness; gaucheness, gaucherie, uncouthness, crassness, rudeness, boorishness, brut ishness, rawness; ill breeding, unmannerliness; i 11 manneredness, uncivility, uncivilness,… …
84tawdry — UK [ˈtɔːdrɪ] / US [ˈtɔdrɪ] adjective Word forms tawdry : adjective tawdry comparative tawdrier superlative tawdriest 1) cheap and of bad quality 2) unpleasant, or immoral a tawdry affair Derived word: tawdriness noun uncountable …
85tawdry — /ˈtɔdri / (say tawdree) adjective (tawdrier, tawdriest) (of finery, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap. {shortened form of (Sain)t Audrey lace, i.e. lace bought at her fair in the Isle of Ely, a former county in eastern England} –tawdrily, adverb… …
86frippery — [n] waste, nonsense adornment, bauble, decoration, fanciness, fandangle*, flashiness, frill, fussiness, gaudiness, knickknack, meretriciousness, ornament, ostentation, pretentiousness, showiness, tawdriness, toy, trinket; concepts 655,824 Ant.… …
87Jack-in-the-Green — An urban street *calendar custom enacted on May Day by chimneysweeps. The sweeps dressed up in their finery, if they had any, with added ribbons; one dressed as the Lord, another as a Lady, and one or two as clowns. They had musicians and… …
88tawdry — ► ADJECTIVE (tawdrier, tawdriest) 1) showy but cheap and of poor quality. 2) sordid; sleazy. DERIVATIVES tawdriness noun. ORIGIN short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon, contraction of St Audrey s lace: Audrey was the patron saint of… …
89cheap — [chēp] adj. [< good cheap, favorable bargain < ME god chep (used as transl. of OFr à bon marché) < OE ceap, a purchase, bargain, akin to Ger kaufen, to buy; ult. < L caupo, petty tradesman] 1. low in price or cost; not expensive 2.… …
90tawdry — [tô′drē] adj. tawdrier, tawdriest [by syllabic merging of St. Audrey, esp. in St. Audrey laces, women s neckpieces sold at St. Audrey s fair in Norwich, England] cheap and showy; gaudy; sleazy tawdriness n …
