gaucherie (goshere)

[F., C. T. Newton , Art and Archæol., p. 417. Gaucho (gou'chō), n. [S. Amer. Sp. form of what appears to be a native name.] A native of the pampas of South America, of Spanish descent. The Gauchos are noted for their spirit of wild independence, for daring horsemanship, and for skilful uncivilized and they depend for subs is ten tes and chiefly cattle-rearing. They have been very prominent in the numerous South American revolutions, but are gradually disappearing as a distinct cla . Farther out on the frontiers, where the art of the cob bler has not yet "found a local habitation," it is very customary to see the camp men and gauchos luxuriating in what are called "botes de potro;" that is to say, boots made of untanned horse hide. 2470 3. Same as gaudy, 3. gaud it (gad), v. [ What gaudyng and foolyng is this afore my doore? Udall, Roister Doister, iii. 4. Go to a go ip's feast and gaude with me. Shak ., C. of E. (ed. War burton), v. 1. For he was sporting in gauding with his familiars. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 562, II. trans. To adorn with gauds or trinkets; decorate meretriciously; paint, as the cheeks. A peire of bedes gauded al with grene. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 159. Our veil'd dames Commit the war of white and damask, in Their nicely gawded cheeks, to the wanton spoil Of Phoebus burning ki es. Shak ., Cor., ii. 1. IMG:content-2149.png:[blocks in formation] 4t. One of the tapers burnt, in commemoration of the five joyful mysteries, by the image, on the altar, or in a chapel of the Virgin, during ma es, antiphons, and hymns in her honor. We find that the tapers themselves, from being meant to commemorate the Virgin's five joys, were called gar