"gay" meaning in Middle English

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      "text": "English: gay"
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          "expansion": "Yola: gaaye, gaay, gay, gai",
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      "text": "Yola: gaaye, gaay, gay, gai"
    }
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      "expansion": "Old French gai",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old French gai.",
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "english": "(Line 545) For ever yet I lovede to be gay,\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "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(please add an English translation of this quotation)\n(Line 236) Why is my neighebores wyf so gay?\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)\n(Line 298) That I was born, and make me fresh and gay,\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)\n(Line 508) But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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        }
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        "joyous, merry"
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          "joyous",
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        ],
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          "merry",
          "merry"
        ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɛi̯/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gay"
}

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      "text": "Yola: gaaye, gaay, gay, gai"
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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "Pages with 26 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(Line 545) For ever yet I lovede to be gay,\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "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(please add an English translation of this quotation)\n(Line 236) Why is my neighebores wyf so gay?\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)\n(Line 298) That I was born, and make me fresh and gay,\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)\n(Line 508) But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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      ],
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        "joyous, merry"
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          "joyous",
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          "merry",
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      "ipa": "/ɡɛi̯/"
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