Tawdry

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

(2): ( n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.

(3): ( superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a name given to the necklace worn of old by English peasant girls, in memory and honor of St. Ethelreda, or Awdry, patroness of the diocese of Ely, who, after she had become religious, mourned for the vanity in which she had indulged by wearing gold necklaces.