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event, to the abbot and convent on 10 October 1189. The word "tawdry" originates from cheap lace sold at this fair. A weekly market has taken place in Ely...

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...

generally variegated in the Indian manner, with feathers, gilt lace, and other tawdry ornaments. — William Keating 1824 In the latter half of the 19th...

during their marriage, and guided her through a series of increasingly tawdry projects like Promises, Promises and The Las Vegas Hillbillys. Mansfield's...

a variety of shops and entertainments, and by the 1950s it was seen as tawdry and outdated, and the Council began discussing what to do with the site...

film a "brainless comedy," adding: "The film may try to renounce its own tawdriness, but not Ms. Griffith; she brings a certain irrepressible gusto to her...

which is the origin of the word tawdry, which derived from the fact that her admirers bought modestly concealing lace goods at an annual fair held in...

disguised by the cooking" and "a disjointed framework for the display of the tawdry wares, which are Mr Dickens's stock-in-trade. A Tale of Two Cities, a 1911...

generally variegated in the Indian manner, with feathers, gilt lace, and other tawdry ornaments. — William Keating 1824 Later in the 19th century, the...

manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly laced with hints of dope addiction, voyeurism and fornication"...

extremely competitive market led Springer to topics often described as tawdry and provocative, increasing its viewership in the process. Common topics...

"the clean, pretty look of a young woman's new outfit with the sometimes tawdry and messy reality of sexual desire and fulfillment". Perone ties the band's...

results have been called sexy by admirers; detractors call the clothes tawdry. Were designers so carried away by one of fashion's golden ages that they...

that his radio sponsors are cold-bloodedly determined to perpetuate the tawdry myth of the "great man." Knowing, as he does, the dark truth, they still...

results have been called sexy by admirers; detractors call the clothes tawdry.... They have succeeded in evoking an epoch in which many women, perhaps...

star out of five, and called it "the saddest, laziest, dullest and most tawdry pop concert I have ever witnessed." He added that "the most amazing thing...

relentlessly catchy chorus and a pummeling club beat power a song that's grand and tawdry and joyful and melancholy" Lady Gaga (2009). The Fame Monster (Liner Notes...

and by the 1580s, the term "mockado" was synonymous with "inferior" or "tawdry". In discussing the old English tradition of new clothes at Easter, folklorist...

shall not be served by kitchen girls arrayed in tawdry finery; shop girls in cheap jewelry and cotton lace, nor denied ourselves the privilege of proper...

generally variegated in the Indian manner, with feathers, gilt lace, and other tawdry ornaments. — William Keating 1824 Their horses are from the southern...