"gaumy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914, Edwin Markham, Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation:",
          "text": "The narrow, dark stairs are gaumy with paste, and everywhere open barrels of the mixture gave out the sickening, sour odor that is always in the nostrils of the workers.",
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          "ref": "1916, Don Marquis, Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers, page 164:",
          "text": "And Fothergil Finch, rather gaumy\nWith Cosmic cosmetics, was there,\nBut the Swami went just as the Swami,\nAfter oiling the kinks in his hair.\nI said to Hermione: \"Goddess! You're graceful, you're Greek, you're a rose, […]\"",
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          "ref": "1946, Jessie Scott, The Charity Ball, page 259:",
          "text": "Far from being gaumy with pitch, they looked rather remarkably smooth and well manicured.",
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        "Sticky; smeared with something sticky."
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