Gay Gordons

The Gay Gordons is a nickname of the Gordon Highlanders, a former infantry regiment of the British army. It is also applied to:

  • Gay Gordons (solitaire), a form of the card game Solitaire (or Patience)
  • Gay Gordons (dance), a popular ceilidh dance
  • The Gay Gordons (musical), a 1907 musical comedy with book by Seymour Hicks and lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse.

Note that "Gay" in this phrase has the Scots meaning, "extraordinary" rather than the more commonly used English meanings.

Famous quotes containing the word gay:

    “Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;
    Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;
    The second best’s a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)