gay = bright, lively, cheerful

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

What surprised me was not the use of "lavender" but the use of "gay" (which I 
stupidly left out of the first message).

 "... *Produces Gay Masses of Blue-Violet Flowering Spires ..."

In a message dated 2/25/08 8:26:01 PM, thnidu at GMAIL.COM writes:


> I'm not surprised at all. Lavender is the name of a plant, or a family of
> plants, and there isn't any real alternative for the word. What's more, this
> is the *word*, not the color (that is, not the color itself; the name of the
> color is another use of the word, thank you very much White Knight
> endofdigression).
> 
>    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender
>    - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lavender
> 
> m a m
> 




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