gait
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By contrast there was a flash of the old gaite parisienne in Beauties of the Night, by Rene Clair; and Jacques Tad, in Mr. Hulot's Holiday, composed something like a ballet of pratfalls.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is a dialect form of Old Fr. gaite, cognate with watch.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
The Christmas waits were originally watchmen, Anglo-Fr. waite, Old Fr. gaite, from the Old High German form of modern Ger.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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