Gay Gordons

Almost worse were country dances with the school team -"Hamilton House", "The Gay Gordons", "Sir Roger de Coverley", on great occasions publicly on the village green.

2003, Allan Gray, Homelands, →ISBN, page 37

Although the programme was built round the Bon Dance, it was nevertheless a motley farrago with three main divisions: post-war Japanese dances came first; then, something billed as 'folk-dances'—we had gone expecting the gems of this tradition-lovin district but we found ourselves watching instead something which, from the dancers' steps as well as from the music, might well have been a cross between a square dance and a Gay Gordons!

2013, Geoffrey Bownas, Pauline Brown, Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices, →ISBN, page 91

New cultivars shown for the first time this year were not particularly exciting, though James Cocker's bi-colour 'Gay Gordons' certainly took the eye.

1969, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist

During the last few years he has introduced such hybrid teas as the apricot-coloured Fairy Dancers, Gay Gordons, red and yellow, and Northern Lights, creamy yellow with tinges of pink.

1974, Amateur Gardening - Volume 91, page 45

There has been a hug swing away from the sort of roses my grandparents loved, fancy Hybrid Teas and Florinbundas^([sic]) with names like 'Tallyho' and 'Gay Gordons'.

2005, Jem Cook, Anna Marsden, Create your dream garden: Tips and techniques to make your garden bloom, →ISBN, page 96