2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.
TAWDRY
Taw"dry, n.; pl. Tawdries (.
Defn: 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.
TAWER
Taw"er, n.
Defn: One who taws; a dresser of white leather.
TAWERY
Taw"er*y, n.
Defn: A place where skins are tawed.
TAWNINESS
Taw"ni*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being tawny.
TAWNY Taw"ny, a. [Compar. Tawnier; superl. Tawniest.] Etym: [F. tanné, p.p. of tanner to tan. See Tan, v. t. & n. Cf. Tenné.]