gay gordons
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Scottish folk dance popular at ceilidhs.
noun
A form of solitaire in which the goal is to remove all cards by creating pairs that add up to 11.
noun
An orange and yellow hybrid tea rose.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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!"
- "They did lariat-spinning, shooting and knife-throwing, then came the clowns, Thick and Thin, and then the Gay Gordons again."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Cocker of Aberdeen brought eleven seedlings: "Ann Cocker', 'Gay Gordons', 'Alec's Red', 'Pineapple Poll' among them."