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Re:First English dictionary of ancient Greek since Victorian... by chmod775 on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:20AM (#27313279)
Note that, as others have also pointed out elsewhere, "gay woman" used to mean prostitute.
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Re:First English dictionary of ancient Greek since Victorian... by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:27AM (#27313309)
Right. I have doubts about the academic writer in 1889 using that meaning of "gay", as a phrase it was ambiguous then, and is _differently_ confusing now. Removing it seems like clarity not prudery. Indeed the opposite of prudery, it removes (literally) Victorian assumptions about the wearer of fancy clothes.
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