"gay" meaning in Middle English

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    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "gay"
          },
          "expansion": "English: gay",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "English: gay"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
            "2": "gaaye",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Yola: gaaye, gaay, gay, gai",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Yola: gaaye, gaay, gay, gai"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "gai"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French gai",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old French gai.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "gay",
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    }
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(Line 545) For ever yet I lovede to be gay,",
          "ref": "1405 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales (source)",
          "text": "(Line 221) To bringe me gaye thinges fro the fayre.\n(Line 236) Why is my neighebores wyf so gay?\n(Line 298) That I was born, and make me fresh and gay,\n(Line 508) But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "joyous, merry"
      ],
      "id": "en-gay-enm-adj-UDQUpxQw",
      "links": [
        [
          "joyous",
          "joyous"
        ],
        [
          "merry",
          "merry"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɛi̯/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gay"
}

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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
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          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "gay"
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          "expansion": "English: gay",
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      ],
      "text": "English: gay"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
            "2": "gaaye",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Yola: gaaye, gaay, gay, gai",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Yola: gaaye, gaay, gay, gai"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "gai"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French gai",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old French gai.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "gay",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "Middle English adjectives",
        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
        "Middle English terms derived from Old French",
        "Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(Line 545) For ever yet I lovede to be gay,",
          "ref": "1405 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales (source)",
          "text": "(Line 221) To bringe me gaye thinges fro the fayre.\n(Line 236) Why is my neighebores wyf so gay?\n(Line 298) That I was born, and make me fresh and gay,\n(Line 508) But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "joyous, merry"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "joyous",
          "joyous"
        ],
        [
          "merry",
          "merry"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɛi̯/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gay"
}