Bedeck vs Gaud - What's the difference?
bedeck | gaud |
To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
a cheap showy trinket
* Shakespeare
* 1926 Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war. - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(obsolete) trick; jest; sport
(obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
(obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
As verbs the difference between bedeck and gaud
is that bedeck is to deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace while gaud is (obsolete) to bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint or gaud can be to sport or keep festival.As a noun gaud is
a cheap showy trinket.bedeck
English
Verb
(en verb)- She bedecked her wedding gown with seed pearls.
gaud
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- an idle gaud
- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
Verb
(en verb)- Nicely gauded cheeks. — Shakespeare.