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1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 127 A gayly checker'd, wide-extended view.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 462 Bid the loud Horns, in gayly-warbling Strains, Proclaim the Felon's Fate.

1810 J. Conder et al. Associate Minstrels 23 Tell me what gaily-throbbing heart..Ere Summer gild another sky, Beneath the valley's clods shall lie?

1820 J. A. Heraud Legend St. Loy iii. ii. 98 Like the young rainbow, first arrayed, With hues of promise gaily-flowered.

1831 E. A. Poe Doomed City in Poems (ed. 2) 50 Not the gaily-jewell'd dead Tempt the waters from their bed.

1844 G. Lippard Ladye Annabel i. vii. 26 The light of many torches streamed through the opened door into the cell, and the gaily-bedizened form of the Duke was discovered.

1882 A. C. Dayton Last Days Knickerbocker Life in N.Y. 251 A gaily-flowered silk waistcoat with ample shirt collar of spotless white about completed his gala attire.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 149 The rippling, gaily-breaking billow.

1897 Daily News 17 June 6/4 The gaily-bedizened arm of the breakwater showed the scene of the ceremony.

1925 Times 27 Apr. 14/5 But for the streaming rain the streets would have presented a gaily chequered appearance.

1944 E. Robacker Pennsylvania Dutch Stuff 71 Competent authorities aver that most, if not all, of these gaily bedizened receptacles came from Europe, Switzerland in particular.

1947 Hispania 30 73 The warm desert sand-tones..made a lovely background for the varnished wooden tables and the comfortable, gaily-flowered Mexican chairs of the dining hall.

1950 Independent (Long Beach, Calif.) 10 Sept. 22 b/5 A gaily jewelled or patterned frame will add dash to an after-five costume.

2001 Los Angeles Times 17 Oct. a1 Something felt discordant about the original design, centered on balloons and gaily flowered skyrockets shooting out of a giant globe.