gay

From the century before last:
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Mrs Reppingall, a lodging-house keeper in Broughton Street, deponed No. 134. to having heard the pursuer on various occasions suggest to his wife "to go and keep a gay house." There was other evidence to a similar effect. The proof of the adultery alleged against the defender was mainly confined to the evidence of certain detectives and frequenters of brothels, the import of which appears sufficiently in the opinions of the Judges in the Inner-House. (Here and there).

Ceci n'est pas un seing.