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ˈgaudy-day
Also 6 gaude-day (9 gaudé-).
[f. gaudy n. + day.]
A day of rejoicing, a festival or gala day; esp. the day on which a college ‘gaudy’ is held (see gaudy n. 5).
1567Drant Horace's Ep. To Rdr., Their loue dayes, their gaude dayes. 1585Cogan Haven Health cciii. 172 The full dyet..may be such, as is vsed at Oxforde vppon gaudie daies. 1624Middleton Game at Chess iii. i. 42 Your foode shall be Black-beries, and vpon gawdy dayes A Pickled Spider. 1656Blount Glossogr., Gawdy, or Granddays, in the Inns of Court there are four of these in the yeer, that is, one in every Term. 1710Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 100 St Thomas a Gaudy-Day in Queen's College. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) I. 372, 13 Companies of incorporated Trades, who, on public Occasions, and on Gaudy-days, walk in the Mayor's Train. 1795–6Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 51 On this their gaudy day the new Regicide Directory sent for their diplomatick rabble. 1814Hist. Univ. Oxford II. 261 This dress is worn..at dinners on gawdy days. 1830T. Wilson Pitman's Pay iii. (1843) 52 A gaudy-day myeks a' hands merry. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 161 It was a gaudy day for the burly London Citizens. 1884Edin. Rev. Apr. 418 The annual gaudy day was especially a festivity of the Arts Faculty.
So gaudy-night.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 183 Come, Let's haue one other gawdy night: Call to me All my sad Captaines, fill our Bowles once more: Let's mocke the midnight Bell. 1935D. L. Sayers (title) Gaudy night. 1963Lockhart & Woodhouse Rhodes xxiii. 404 It happened to be the College's annual Gaudy night. |