brightly colored vs gaudy

brightly colored

gaudy

adj
  • Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner. 

noun
  • A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the long vacation. 

How often have the words brightly colored and gaudy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )