Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
garish , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Same as
garish ,garishly ,garishness .
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Examples
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It is not so with the author of _Nile Notes_, than whom a June breeze is not more bland, and moonlight not less gairish or oppressive.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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She cowered before it, as they drove along between the fields of yellowing corn, all in the gairish sunshine, spreading so broadly over the broad plain.
In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885
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Here the gairish day at length disclosed what the modest night had obscured with her diamond veil of stars.
Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858
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In the gairish eye of day, the contemplation of this exquisite landscape would have been neither so affecting to the heart, nor so beautiful to the eye.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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They love the vanities of the world then, "-- and her eye flashed over the well-appointed dress of Reuben, who felt half an inclination to hide, if it had been possible, the cluster of gairish charms which hung at his watch-chain.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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Now, without any gairish of words, I will proceed baldly to enumerate various important physical differentiations which ---- (_Intervention by Hon'ble
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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