“Her secrets: old feather fans, tasseled dance cards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.”

“The costumes were bright and colorful without the gaudiness sometimes associated with street theatre.”

“The plush red-velvet setting is just right for an evening that has an extravagant peacock gaudiness but no discernible heart or brain.”

“It is his signature, his philosophy and shtick, his declaration that love conquers all, a testament to the gaudiness and foreignness of romance.”

“Anything goes, including gauds of pearls, of enameled gold, even of balas rubies and sapphires.”