Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaudinesses
Literary usage of Gaudinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"... clothed in their Sunday best of gaudinesses, and the long procession of fanciful
trucks freighted with their groups of curious and costly images, ..."
2. Selections and Essays by John Ruskin (1918)
"... novelties, and gaudinesses—to make every design an advertisement, and pilfer
every idea of a successful neighbor's, that you may insidiously imitate it, ..."
3. Art Education: Scholastic and Industrial by Walter Smith (1873)
"... novelties, and gaudinesses,.to make every design an advertisement, and pilfer
every idea of a successful neighbor's, that you may insidiously imitate it ..."
4. The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and by John Ruskin (1900)
"... in jealous rivalry with neighbouring States, or with other producers, you try
to attract attention by singularities, novelties, and gaudinesses—to make ..."
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