1539 Will of Aslyn (Somerset Ho.), My gaye potte of glasse. 1508 Dunbar Tua mariit Wemen 365 He grathit me in a gay silk, et gudly arrayis. 1463 Bury Wills (Camden) 41 My best gay cuppe of erthe. c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) lvi, He come in als gay gere, Ryȝte as he an angelle were. Swift Somerley 54 Oh! that first kiss! how proud of it we are, what gay dogs we feel! 1910 S. 224 My patient was a married man, who admitted having been very gay in early life. 302 This elder Narcissa had led a gay and wild life while beauty lasted. He sported a little as well, and delighted in horse-racing. He was particularly fond of attending public entertainments. 382 The principal of the firm was what is termed ‘gay’. 103 The place was merely a gay suburb of the capital. 214 For some years he lived a cheerful, and even gay, though never a dissipated life, in Paris. 40 The dissolute conduct of the gay circles in France is not of modern date.

36 The brilliant part of men of wit and pleasure, or gay, young, military sparks. 124 ⁋7 The old gentleman, whose character I cannot better express than in the fashionable phrase which has been contrived to palliate false principles and dissolute manners, had been a gay man, and was well acquainted with the town. i, Is this that Haughty, Gallant, Gay Lothario? 1754 Adventurer No. 130 Every Dunce of a Quack, is call'd a Physician‥Every Gay thing, a Chevalier. Nor rude, though gay men have a priviledge.