gaily

[gey-lee]

Origin

adverb

with merriment; merrily; joyfully; cheerfully.

with showiness; showily.

Also, gayly.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see gay, -ly

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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gaily (ˈɡeɪlɪ)

—*adv*
1.	in a lively manner; cheerfully
2.	with bright colours; showily

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Word Origin & History

gaily

late 14c., from M.E. gai (see gay) + -ly (2).

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"Miss Dudley ... gives one the idea of a lightly-sparred yacht in mid- ocean; unexpected; you ask yourself what the devil she is doing there. She sails gaily along, though there is no land in sight and plenty of rough weather coming. She never read a book, I believe, in her life. She tries to paint, but she is only a second-rate amateur and will never be any thing more, though she has done one or two things which I give you my word I would like to have done myself. She picks up all she knows without an effort and knows nothing well, yet she seems to understand whatever is said. Her mind is as irregular as her face, and both have the same peculiarity. I notice that the lines of her eyebrows, nose and mouth all end with a slight upward curve like a yacht's sails, which gives a kind of hopefulness and self-confidence to her expression. Mind and face have the same curves."

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