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Definition of Tawdrier
1. tawdry [adj] - See also: tawdry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tawdrier
Literary usage of Tawdrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1854)
"The little glazed shoe, cracked and worn, was fastened with a tawdry buckle, and
a still tawdrier one, in tinsel and glass, secured the gilded leathern band ..."
2. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"... still prefer the simple grandeur of the Pantheon, shorn as it is of its gilded
roof and marble statues, to the tawdrier decoration of later churches. ..."
3. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"... still prefer the simple grandeur of the Pantheon, shorn as it is of its gilded
roof and marble statues, to the tawdrier decoration of later churches. ..."
4. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"... still prefer the simple grandeur of the Pantheon, shorn as it is of its gilded
roof and marble statues, to the tawdrier decoration of later churches. ..."
5. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1854)
"The little glazed shoe, cracked and worn, was fastened with a tawdry buckle, and
a still tawdrier one, in tinsel and glass, secured the gilded leathern band ..."
6. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"... still prefer the simple grandeur of the Pantheon, shorn as it is of its gilded
roof and marble statues, to the tawdrier decoration of later churches. ..."
7. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"... still prefer the simple grandeur of the Pantheon, shorn as it is of its gilded
roof and marble statues, to the tawdrier decoration of later churches. ..."
8. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"... still prefer the simple grandeur of the Pantheon, shorn as it is of its gilded
roof and marble statues, to the tawdrier decoration of later churches. ..."
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