'Badaud' definitions:

Definition of 'Badaud'

From: GCIDE

Badaud \Ba`daud"\, n. [F.] A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler. [1913 Webster]
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]