Tawdry /(?)/

1. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. [Obs.]

   And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace.

2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.

   He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers.

pl. Tawdries

1. A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. [Obs.]

   Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks.