Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tawdries"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tawdry \Taw"dry\, n.; pl. {Tawdries}.
A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair;
hence, a necklace in general. [Obs.]
Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them
tawdries for their necks. --Drayton.
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