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A Tawdry Tale of Saints and Lace - The Countryman's Daughter
They were known as St Audrey's lace which, by the end of the sixteenth century, had been shortened to tawdry lace (overheard in Yorkshire, I ... countrymansdaughter.com
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TAWDRY LACE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
noun obsolete : a woman's tie of lace worn about the neck. Word History Etymology alteration of earlier St. Audrey's lace. www.merriam-webster.com
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How a Saint Gave Us the Word Tawdry - Merriam-Webster
St. Audrey's lace eventually became tawdry lace, still in reference to a bit of fabric worn around the throat. By the beginning of the 17th century this had ... www.merriam-webster.com
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tawdry lace
† tawdry lace Obs. [See T (the letter) 7.] In the earliest quotation St. Audrey's lace, i.e. lace of St. Audrey, Etheldrida, or æþelðryþ (daughter of Anna king of East Anglia, and patron saint of Ely): A silk ‘lace’ or necktie, much worn by women in the 16th and early 17th c.; sometimes taken as a t... Oxford English Dictionary
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st. audrey's lace - Etymology Blog
The word tawdry, which today means "gaudy", originally referred to a popular type of lace necklace worn by women in the sixteenth and early seventeenth ... www.etymologynerd.com
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Uncommon Knowledge: Which Saint gave lace a bad name?
The name of St. Audrey's Lace had gradually been shortened to Tawdry Lace. Thus, the word “tawdry” came to mean anything cheap and vulgar. www.uncommongoods.com
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tawdrum
† ˈtawdrum Obs. nonce-wd. [f. tawdry, with L. ending: cf. nostrum.] A tawdry decoration.1680 Betterton Revenge v. iv. 65 No matter for Lace and Tawdrums. Oxford English Dictionary
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tawdry - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
The lace necklaces sold to pilgrims to Saint Audrey fell out of fashion in the 17th century, and so tawdry was reinterpreted as meaning “cheap” or “vulgar”. en.wiktionary.org
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Tawdry - Oxford Reference
The word is short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th cents, contraction of St Audrey's lace. www.oxfordreference.com
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A.Word.A.Day --tawdry - Wordsmith.org
MEANING: adjective: Cheap, showy, and gaudy. ETYMOLOGY: Short for tawdry lace, a contraction of St Audrey lace. www.wordsmith.org
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Tawdry Lace: Ely Place - Historic London Tours
This is Ely Place, so called because between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries this area was the London home to the Bishops of Ely. historiclondontours.com
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Today's awesome etymology: St. Audrey's Lace -> Tawdry - Reddit
Her association with cheap lace necklaces is that she supposedly died of a throat tumor, which she considered God's punishment for her youthful fondness for ... www.reddit.com
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Audrey
In the 17th century, the name of Saint Audrey gave rise to the adjective tawdry "cheap and pretentious; cheaply adorned". The lace necklaces sold to pilgrims to Saint Audrey fell out of fashion in the 17th century, and so tawdry was reinterpreted as meaning cheap or vulgar wikipedia.org
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tawdry
tawdry, n. and a. (ˈtɔːdrɪ) Also 6 tauthrie, tawdrie (see next); 7 taudrey, tawdery, 7–8 taudry. [As n. short for tawdry lace, q.v.; hence referring to the showy but cheap quality of these in the 17th century.] A. n. † 1. Short for tawdry lace. Obs.1612 Drayton Poly-olb. ii. 46 Of which the Naides, ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Tabloid talk show
As an example, one of the early show topics was titled "Men in Lace Panties and the Women Who Love Them". started as a politically oriented talk show, the search for higher ratings in an extremely competitive market led Springer to topics often described as tawdry wikipedia.org
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