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Gaylord
Gaylord Gaylord carries the medieval French ideal of gaillardise — a quality of bold, vital cheerfulness that marked the fully realized courtly man, neither dour from excessive piety nor debauched from lack of self-control. The name represents a specific moment in American naming history when French-derived surnames were converted to given names as markers of cultural aspiration. A character named Gaylord inhabits the tension between a name that once signified desirable masculine vitality and the shifting connotations that names accumulate over time.
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