C16 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
Examples of 'tawdrier' in a sentence
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Tawdrier aspects of the state are caught, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We shouldn't complain that secret nuptials diminish marriage, since nothing makes it look tawdrier than the biggest weddings.