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gay blade en · NOUN
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(obsolete) A dashing swordsman.
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(dated) A dashing youth.
At college he was a gay blade who played the guitar or one of the instruments for the accompaniment of song.
1941, Jonathan Daniels, Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina:He's feeling very low now because he was sixty years old the other day. And you know- you know how Bebe [is]- I said Bebe, you can't talk about being a young gay blade anymore.
1973, Richard Nixon, “WHT 035-067”, in Nixon White House tapes:
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