Gaudy

(noun.) (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college.

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• They lighted up Rebecca's figure to admiration, as she sat on a sofa covered with a pattern of gaudy flowers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There was a boat with a gaudy Japanese parasol, and a man in white, rowing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The park was speckled by tents, whose flaunting colours and gaudy flags, waving in the sunshine, added to the gaiety of the scene. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I am to remain on this gaudy platform on which my miserable deception has been so long acted, and it is to fall beneath me when you give the signal? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mrs Dengelton was doing a parrot in beadwork for a screen, and the gaudy bird might have passed for her portrait, so like her did it seem. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This gaudy relationship did him little good at school. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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