Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tawdry \Taw"dry\, n.; pl. {Tawdries}.
   A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair;
   hence, a necklace in general. [Obs.]

         Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them
         tawdries for their necks.                --Drayton.