Meanings of tawdry finery in inglés

At night, however, they blossomed forth in tawdry finery, in the dancing-space behind the gambling-tables.

All the garish display, the paint and tawdry finery, of the old gambling days, had gone.

Among the rules is one which forbids the wearing of artificial flowers or any tawdry finery during school-time.

The recollection of the place with its tawdry finery and squalid surroundings filled her with mingled anger and disgust.

There she lay, poor woman, in her tawdry finery, crumpled up, battered and bruised, dead amongst the ruins of her home.

Each hook bulged and overflowed with clothing: tawdry finery, evening-gowns, old skirts, wrappers, sacks, bath-robes, knitted jackets and shawls and miscellaneous underclothes.

There were women present too,-coarseand vicious creatures who lacked even the sort of tawdry finery that their sisters in western mining camps affect.

But after returning with the rum she had gone as far as Fell Street and bought herself all the tawdry finery her funds would command.

If I had any pride left, I stifled it for the sake of these poor lost souls, sitting around in their tawdry finery, smoking cigarettes.

She was very small, with a pinched-up nut-cracker face, dressed in an old bit of tawdry finery, more than three sizes too large for her.

"As if any man would want to squeeze such a ragbag o' tawdry finery and milliners' tinsel," said Radisson afterward to me.