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Definition of Gewgawed
1. gewgaw [adj] - See also: gewgaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gewgawed
Literary usage of Gewgawed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Testament Illustrations: Comprising Choice Selections, Anecdotes by William Basil Jones (1875)
"We shall leave our gewgawed devotees to reconcile humiliation in worship with
vanity in dress. How far fine clothes may affect the personal piety of the ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1873)
"Wash off Its paint and strip it of its gewgawed trappings, and It stands forth
the wan and wretched object It really Is. There Is better work In store for ..."
3. America, and the Americans by James Boardman, Citizen of the world (1833)
"describable degree of interest; and, in my eyes, it was worth all the bespangled
and gewgawed thrones in Christendom, the venerable worm-eaten Gothic chair ..."
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