"For most of its life in English, the word's primary meaning was "joyful", "carefree", "bright and showy", and the word was very commonly used with this meaning in speech and literature".
This particular magazine dates from 1936 so is unlikely to have our modern meaning of the word.
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Gay as in happy?
Presumably.......
"For most of its life in English, the word's primary meaning was "joyful", "carefree", "bright and showy", and the word was very commonly used with this meaning in speech and literature".
This particular magazine dates from 1936 so is unlikely to have our modern meaning of the word.
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