GAUDINESS

garishness, gaudiness

(noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation

flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz

(noun) tasteless showiness

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gaudiness (countable and uncountable, plural gaudinesses)

Pretension in appearance; looking overly and distastefully adorned.

Anagrams

• Agnus Deis

Source: Wiktionary


Gaud"i*ness, n.

Definition: The quality of being gaudy. Whitlock.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.

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