Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Badaud \Ba`daud"\, n. [F.]
   A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder
   or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

         A host of stories . . . dealing chiefly with the
         subject of his great wealth, an ever delightful topic
         to the badauds of Paris.                 --Pall Mall
                                                  Mag.