gaudies

“Unlike our Oxford gaudies, which have only a few years' worth of alumni turning up, this is an annual event that alumni from ALL years flock to - with special focus on those celebrating anniversaries if that is even the right word that are multiples of 5.”

Princeton Times I

“I remember bright rugs hung out for sale, silver poplars edging the river, marking off farmers' fields and in my sleep, I hear braying donkeys and gaudies”

Archive 2007-10-01

“Marshal," said he to Chabannes, "we are told that over the Po yonder is Sir Prosper Colonna, with two thousand horse, in a town called Villafranca, apprehending nought and thinking of nought but gaudies.”

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4