Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gaudy

Gaudy , adjective

1.
Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. — Shakespeare
2.
Gay; merry; festal. — Tennyson
Let's have one other gaudy night. — Shakespeare

Gaudy (#) , noun

[See Gaud, n.]

One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obsolete] — Gower

Gaudy , noun

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] — Conybeare