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>. It was a way to bemoan the misery of being forced to marry a stranger and deciding not to marry a stranger for as long as possible, hence an unmarried young man who could easily have married was a “Gay Bachelor;” that is: to be content without the pretence of married life and a ghastly tedious job in some oppressive branch of the civil service, that is: that not being miserable in such a way was to be gay, and this was the meaning of the word from its first use in the 14-1500’s up until the 1980’s.