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TAUDRY,

garish, gawdy, with Lace, or mismatched and staring Colours: A Term borrow'd from those Times when they trick'd and bedeck'd the Shrines and Altars of the Saints, as being at Emulation with each other upon that Occasion. The Votaries of St. Audery (in Isle of Ely Saint) exeeding all the rest in the Dress and Equipage of their Altar, it grew into a By-word, upon any thing very gawdy, that it was All Taudry; as much as to say, All St. Audery.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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TART Dames
TARTAR
TATTER-De-mallion
TATTLE
TATS
TAUDRY
TAYLE
TAYLE Drawers
TEAGUE-Land
TEAGUE-Landers
TEARS of the Tankard

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The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).