Usually means: Ornamental band worn by clergy.
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  1. gaud: Merriam-Webster
  2. gaud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gaud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gaud: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gaud: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gaud, Gaud, gaud: Wordnik
  7. gaud: Wiktionary
  8. gaud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gaud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gaud: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Gaud, gaud: Dictionary.com
  12. Gaud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Gaud: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. gaud: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. gaud: Rhymezone
  16. Gaud: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. gaud: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. gaud: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gaud: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. gaud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. gaud: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gaud-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. gaud: Encyclopedia

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  1. GAUD: Acronym Finder

(Note: See gauding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Gaud)

noun:  A cheap showy trinket
noun:  (obsolete) trick; jest; sport
noun:  (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
verb:  (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
verb:  To sport or keep festival.
noun:  Alternative form of Gaur (“ancient Bengali city”) [An ancient Bengali city presently divided between Bangladesh and India, named Lakhnauti in the 12th century C.E. and Jannatabad in the 16th century.]

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