Obs. nonce-wd. [App. an arbitrary formation on tawdry.] = prec.
1586. W. Webbe, Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 84. See ye not your selues doo demeane too rudely: Bynd the fillets: and to be fine the waste gyrt Fast with a tawdryne [Webbe’s rendering in sapphics of Spenser’s stanzas: see quot. 1579 in prec.].
