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gaudy (adj.)
1.(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
2.tastelessly showy "a flash car" "a flashy ring" "garish colors" "a gaudy costume" "loud sport shirts" "a meretricious yet stylish book" "tawdry ornaments"
3.intended to attract notice and impress others"an ostentatious sable coat"
gaudy (n.)
1.(Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
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Merriam Webster
GaudyGaud"y (?), a. [Compar. Gaudier (?); superl. Gauidiest.]
1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak.
2. Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson.
Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.
GaudyGaud"y, n.; pl. Gaudies (#) [See Gaud, n.] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.
GaudyGaud"y, n. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.
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Voir aussi
gaudy (adj.)
↘ ostentation, pointedly, splurge ↗ look, see ≠ discreet, inconspicuous, invisible, quiet, sober, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious
gaudy (adj.)
qui attire la vue (couleur) (fr)[Classe]
look, see[QuiSubit~]
colorful, colourful[Similaire]
gaudy (adj.)
gaudy (n.)
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Gaudy or gaudie[1] (from the Latin, "gaudium", meaning "enjoyment" or "merry-making") is a term used to reflect student life in a number of the ancient universities in the United Kingdom as well as red brick institutions such as Durham University. It is generally believed to relate to the traditional student song, De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life), which is commonly known as the Gaudeamus by virtue of its first line.
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At the University of Oxford a gaudy ('gaude' at New College, pronounced the same) is a college feast. It is often a reunion for its old members (i.e., alumni). The origin of the term may be connected to the traditional student anthem, Gaudeamus.
Gaudies generally involve a celebratory formal dinner, generally in black tie and academic gowns (scarlet festal robes for doctors), and may include events such as chapel services, lectures or concerts beforehand. For reunions, the invitees are generally graduate alumni from a number of (usually two or three) consecutive matriculation years, e.g. 1999-2001. Typically, gaudies are held for each year-group on around a ten-year cycle.
At St Chad's College the College feastday begins with a proclamation of the feast and includes an early rise, college invasions, green breakfast, as well as a host of competitions that see students spread out into the City vying to win various awards. More serious highlights include a service in the Cathedral and musical performances in the Quad. Alumni have a parallel set of events on or around the same day in Durham and (usually) in London. Previous events that were termed 'gaudies' are now more often called 'feasts' (by the college) or 'mega-formals' (by the JCR): these are all black-tie and gowned affairs that occur several times a term to mark major feasts and special events.
At the University of Dundee, formerly Queens College St Andrews, gaudie nights are traditional student celebrations involving the issue of junior students with senior 'academic parents' in order to introduce them to higher education and to provide socialisation. These events are usually held a short time after the institution's Freshers' Week. The Night itself involves the academic parents (typically one male, one female) taking their younger charges out for an evening's entertainment at the parent's expense.
These evenings are followed by a Raisin Night which is used by the junior students to thank the academic parents (usually in a ritualised fashion) for gaudie night. This typical happens at some point in the early winter of the first semester.
In more recent years, the Dundee Medical School Society (DUMS for short) has introduced an additional 'academic family' event into the social calendar known as Farkin Wednesday. This well-anticipated event traditionally takes place on the second Wednesday in February, providing 'academic parents' the opportunity to check up on their 'juniors', ensuring they have settled in well. The origins of the name are still up for debate. Some believe the event was introduced in memoriam of Lord Archibald Kwigsworth MacKenzie Farkin, previous Lord Mayor of the City of Dundee, who was known to be fond of both fraternity and inebriation. Some believe that the event was named after Farkin Way, a historical Celtic path that ran through the area where Ninewells Hospital is currently located. However some scholars dispute the existence of such a path, declaring, "there's no Farkin Way".
Similar traditions remain at Dundee's parent institution, the University of St Andrews, but are however incorporated into a Raisin Weekend and the term gaudie night is not used for the first night. Many traditions surround this event including Raison receipts in Latin, a foam fight and Raison strings given by the academic mother to be hung on the Bejant/Bejantine's academic gown. St Andrews has a separate ceremony known as the gaudie which involves a gowned torchlight procession and singing of the Gaudeamus in memory of a student, John Honey who risked his life in 1800 to save survivors of a shipping accident offshore.[2]
At the University of Aberdeen, the Gaudie is the name of the student newspaper produced under the auspices of the Aberdeen University Students' Association. It is recognised as the oldest student newspaper in Scotland.[3]
The Lord Peter Wimsey mystery Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers, is set at such a reunion at a fictional women's college at Oxford.
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