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gaud noun2. obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
[Anglo-Latin gaudium, prob. based on medieval Latin quinque gaudia the five 'joyful mysteries' of the rosary. Cf. Anglo-Norman gaudes in same sense.]
Each of the large ornamental beads in a rosary, placed between the decades of aves.