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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

tawdry

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Source Word

tawdry

IPA(Pronunciation)

countable obsolete uncountable

(obsolete) Tawdry lace. / (obsolete) Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.

Japanese Meaning

けばけばしい、安っぽい装飾品としての、見せかけだけの華美な品物

What is this buttons?

She pressed the tawdry flat between the pages of a book to preserve its delicate pattern.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は繊細な模様を保存するために、その安っぽいレースを本のページの間に挟んで平らにした。

Sense（1）

(obsolete) Tawdry lace.

Sense（2）

(obsolete) Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.

That fiddling, parading fellow (you know who I mean) made us wait for him two hours […] only for the sake of having a little more tawdry upon his housings […].

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

tawdries

（ plural ）

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