Gay Gordons

English

Noun

Gay Gordons

1. A Scottish folk dance popular at ceilidhs.
   • 2003, Allan Gray, Homelands, →ISBN, page 37:

     Almost worse were country dances with the school team -"Hamilton House", "The Gay Gordons", "Sir Roger de Coverley", on great occasions publicly on the village green.

   • 2013, Geoffrey Bownas, Pauline Brown, Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices, →ISBN, page 91:

     Although the programme was built round the Bon Dance, it was nevertheless a motley farrago with three main divisions: post-war Japanese dances came first; then, something billed as 'folk-dances'—we had gone expecting the gems of this tradition-lovin district but we found ourselves watching instead something which, from the dancers' steps as well as from the music, might well have been a cross between a square dance and a Gay Gordons!

   • 2015, Christopher Hope, Heaven Forbid, →ISBN:

     They did lariat-spinning, shooting and knife-throwing, then came the clowns, Thick and Thin, and then the Gay Gordons again.

2. A form of solitaire in which the goal is to remove all cards by creating pairs that add up to 11.
   • 2010, William von Hagen, Ubuntu Linux Bible, →ISBN:

     If you're a Solitaire aficionado who knows more than one game, you'll be happy to know that AisleRiot Solitaire provides the following games: Agnes, Athena, […] , Freecell, Gaps, Gay Gordons, Glenwood, Golf, […] , Yukon, and Zebra.

3. An orange and yellow hybrid tea rose.
   • 1969, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist:

     New cultivars shown for the first time this year were not particularly exciting, though James Cocker's bi-colour 'Gay Gordons' certainly took the eye.

   • 1970, Gardeners Chronicle, the Horticultural Trade Journal, page 37:

     Cocker of Aberdeen brought eleven seedlings: "Ann Cocker', 'Gay Gordons', 'Alec's Red', 'Pineapple Poll' among them.

   • 1974, Amateur Gardening - Volume 91, page 45:

     During the last few years he has introduced such hybrid teas as the apricot-coloured Fairy Dancers, Gay Gordons, red and yellow, and Norhern Lights, creamy yellow with tinges of pink.

   • 2012, Jem Cook, Anna Marsden, Create your dream garden: Tips and techniques to make your garden bloom, →ISBN:

     There has been a hug swing away from the sort of roses my grandparents loved, fancy Hybrid Teas and Florinbundas with names like 'Tallyho' and 'Gay Gordons'.