Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TAW'DRY
TAW'DRY, a.
Very fine and showy in colors without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.
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