The cover of Leonard Leslie Brookeâs Ring Oâ Roses shows nursery rhyme characters performing âRing Around the Rosie.â The book was first published in 1922 and the image is therefore in the public domain.
In a new book, Victor Rios describes how rogue cops and harried school officials push some young blacks and Latinos into deeper trouble. In a new book, Victor Rios describes how rogue cops and harried school officials push some young blacks and Latinos into deeper trouble.
This gaud came from the French gaudir, meaning to rejoice or jest, which came in turn from the Latin gaudere, meaning to rejoice or delight in. (That Latin gaudere, by the way, is also the source of the English word joy.). posted by meerkatty at 2:38 PM on July 8, 2009.ncluding, from here : I was recently told that the word gaudy comes from the name of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi. I find this hard to believe as he died in the late 1920s and it seems to me that this word is of older origin. The dictionary said that it came from gaudiere, which I assume is French.