ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TAWDRY
Tawdry lace, shortened and altered from Seynt Audries lace, finery sold at the fair of St Audrey (Etheldrida), 7th-century queen of Northumbria and patron saint of Ely, Cambridgeshire.
4 QUOTES WITH «TAWDRY»
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tawdry.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAWDRY»
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tawdry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tawdry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles
All of these essays are unpublished and written for this volume.
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Tawdry Knickers and Other Unfortunate Ways to Be Remembered: ...
Tawdry Knickers and Other Unfortunate Ways to Be Remembered details the lamentable lives and legacies of history's most infamous namesakes and the words they inspired: * Henry Shrapnel died of natural causes, despite having invented the ...
Eckhard Gerdes's Cistern Tawdry, like Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, offers verbally explosive, energetic, hyperbolic language rich in typographic play and Futurist enunciations of words immediately losing themselves by means of ...
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Transactions of the American Philological Association
Saint Audry came to be sometimes Sain(f) * Taudry, * Tawdry, Taudery. (*)
Taudery, for St. Audery, (Etheldred.) 1692 Coles, Eng. Diet. (See full quot. below.)
On and after Saint Audry's day, there was held, in the Isle of Ely, a great fair cald
Saint ...
Oh ! Enter Tawdry and Romp. Tawdry. Doll and Coquette ! Romp. You're to come
back. Coquette. No. Come and look here. Doll and Coquette. She was Prunella,
she is Pierrette. We don't remember her, do we? Tawdry and Doll. No. Prunella.
Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane,
1914
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Stra to Z
John Stephen Farmer William Ernest Henley. Tavistock. 87 Tawdry. Tawny-coat.
88 Teacup. Tavistock (or Tawstock) Grace, subs. phr. (Halliwell). — \ Finis. ' Taw,
subs. (old). — See quots. TAWLINGS (or taw) = the line from which the marble is
...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley,
1904
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A Glossary of Words, Phrases, Names: And Allusions in the ...
TAWDRY, a. A yulgar corruption of saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning saint
Ethelreda. It implies, therefore, that the things so called had been bought at the
fair of saint Audrey, where gay toys of all sorts were sold. Thin fair was held in the
Isle of ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,
1905
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A Glossary; Or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names and ...
TAWDRY, a. TAWDRY, s. 1-TATTER. A ragged person. What tattefs that that
wnlkes there. Heywood': Royall King, 1637. 1"l'AW. The game of marbles.
Custom has indeed fix'd the poets in the schools, for the use of boys-, but then
one would ...
Robert Nares, James-Orchard Halliwell, Thomas II Wright,
1859
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A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
TAWDRY, a. A vulgar corruption of saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning saint
Ethelreda. It implies, therefore, that the things so called had been bought at the
fair of saint Audrey, where gay toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in the
Isle of ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright,
1867
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A Glossary of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions in the ...
TAWDRY, a. A vulgar corruption of saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning saint
Ethelreda. It implies, therefore, that the things so called had been bought at the
fair of saint Audrey, where gay toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in the
Isle of ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright,
1905
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAWDRY»
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Grey review – EL James revisits her tawdry S&M saga
Now, in the absence of other ideas, James plods through the whole tawdry, teary saga again from this point on. Grey is not a continuation; instead, it lazily ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless
The government's manipulation of the recommendations by Bret Walker SC on the revocation of Australian citizenship is the latest in a string of tawdry ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Review: Biopic 'Saint Laurent' wallows in the tawdry
It's hard to be sure because director-co-writer Bertrand Bonello — perhaps tiring of the tawdry after two hours — starts throwing in surreal scenes in the film's ... «The Detroit News, Jun 15»
Tawdry testimony of ex-Lee innkeeper continues on day 2 of federal …
SPRINGFIELD - Thursday yielded the second day of testimony in U.S. District Court about a quiet prostitution enterprise in Lee, a hilly hamlet that attracts ... «MassLive.com, May 15»
Tawdry Craigslist post leads to child sex charge for Wisconsin man
Joseph Mech, a special agent with the state Division of Criminal Investigation, saw the ad April 22 and responded using an undercover email account, ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 15»
Mayweather v Pacquiao: Lionisation of Floyd Mayweather makes for …
The lionisation of Floyd Mayweather can make for a strange and tawdry spectacle. He is venerated by his disciples as a man of mystique, even when he plays ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
Alabama Judge Says Raising Money To Be Elected Is 'Tawdry'
Mixing judges with campaign contributions can lead to conflicts of interest. Fresh Air talks to retired Judge Sue Bell Cobb and the Center for American Progress' ... «NPR, Mar 15»
Malcolm Rifkind's tawdry exit shows the system works
This is a tawdry end to a distinguished political career. Sir Malcolm's experience and heft were valuable on the ISC, which is tasked with grilling politicians and ... «Financial Times, Feb 15»
Top Senator Patrick Leahy Won't Attend 'Tawdry' Speech by …
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) called Benjamin Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress “tawdry” and said he would not attend, the most senior Democrat in the ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Feb 15»
Truth, Lies, Diana review – tawdry drama commits crimes against …
Though there are plenty of reasons to believe the state and its servants will use snooping, cover-ups and lies against us, this tawdry evening tackles its subject in ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»