Gaiety Girl
Preserved but no longer current.
Meaning · English
One of the beauty chorus for which the old Gaiety Theatre in the Strand was famous in the '90s and Edwardian days. Several of them married into the peerage.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “Gaiety Girl” mean?
One of the beauty chorus for which the old Gaiety Theatre in the Strand was famous in the '90s and Edwardian days. Several of them married into the peerage.
Is “Gaiety Girl” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.