noun. The quality or condition of being gaudy; showiness; ostentatiousness.

noun. The quality of being gaudy.

noun. Pretension in appearance; looking overly done and distastefully adorned.

noun. strident color or excessive ornamentation

noun. tasteless showiness

"The use of a little gum guacum in solution will be found occasionally advantageous; this gum is fairly hard and will lower the colour and prevent too much of an approach to gaudiness, that is, if a highly coloured varnish has been found necessary."

gaudy  

tastelessness  ugliness  

anevent  asskicking  bacchanal  cigar-smoking  circumlocution  

Barnumism  affectation  apparent character  appearances  arsenic green