Gaudy /(?)/

1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

   Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.

2. Gay; merry; festal.

   Let's have one other gaudy night.

pl. Gaudies

1. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.]

1. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.]