Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - tawdry
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(tawdrier, tawdriest) 1. If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste. ...tawdry jewellery. = tacky ADJ 2. If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral. ...the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality. ADJ: usu ADJ n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. adjective (tawdrier; -est) Etymology: ~ lace a tie of lace for the neck, from Saint Audrey (Saint Etheldreda) died 679 queen of Northumbria Date: 1655 cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality; also ignoble a ~ attempt to smear his opponent Synonyms: see gaudy • tawdrily adverb • tawdriness noun II. noun Date: circa 1680 cheap showy finery ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. (tawdrier, tawdriest) 1 showy but worthless. 2 over-ornamented, gaudy, vulgar. --n. cheap or gaudy finery. Derivatives tawdrily adv. tawdriness n. Etymology: earlier as noun: short for tawdry lace, orig. St Audrey's lace f. Audrey = Etheldrida, patron saint of Ely ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. безвкусные украшения; дешевый шик; мишура 2. кричащий, безвкусный tawdry garment —- кричащее платье tawdry colours —- вызывающе яркие цвета tawdry decorations —- безвкусные украшения tawdry finery —- мишура tawdry existence —- позолоченная нищета; нищенское, но с претензией на роскошь существование 3. безвкусно ли кричаще одетый; расфуфыренный 4. помпезный, цветистый (о стиле, стихотворении и т. п.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. adj. мишурный, кричаще безвкусный Syn: see gaudy 2. noun дешевый шик; безвкусные украшения ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1676, adjective use of tawdry "silk necktie for women" (1612), shortened from tawdry lace (1548), an alteration of St. Audrey's lace, a necktie or ribbon sold at the annual fair commemorating St. Audrey (queen of Northumbria, died 679), whose name was worn down from O.E. Жрelрryр "noble might," from жрele "noble" (from P.Gmc. *athala-, from PIE *at-al- "race, family," from *at(i)- "over, beyond, super" + *al- "to nourish") + рryр "might." Her association with cheap lace necklaces is that she supposedly died of a throat tumor, which she considered God's punishment for her youthful fondness for showy necklaces. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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