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tawdrier |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tawdry \Taw"dry\, a. [Compar. {Tawdrier}; superl. {Tawdriest}.] [Said to be corrupted from Saint Audrey, or Auldrey meaning Saint Ethelreda implying therefore, originally, bought at the fair of St Audrey, where laces and gay toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in Isle Ely, and probably at other places, on the day of the saint, which was the 17th of October.] 1. Bought at the festival of St Audrey. [Obs.] And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace. --Spenser. 2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
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