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English
Etymology 1
From Spanish gallera (“cockfight arena”).
Noun
gayelle (plural gayelles)
- (Caribbean, chiefly Trinidad and Tobago) An informal stage or arena, as for cockfighting or stickfighting.
1975, Quincy Troupe, Rainer Schulte, Giant talk: an anthology of Third World writings, link:And that time Bolo is coming through the village to the gayelle...
1997, Earl Lovelace, The Schoolmaster, page 21:I who have the best gamecocks from here to Maraval, and win twenty-nine battles with Hawk alone before they poison him near the gayelle in Valencia when we went to fight.
2004, Milla Cozart Riggio, Carnival: culture in action : the Trinidad experience, page 293:Stickfighters usually frequent a particular gayelle, which may have a recognized champion.
Etymology 2
From gay + French -elle (“feminine suffix”).
Noun
gayelle (plural gayelles)
- (neologism, rare, nonstandard) A lesbian.
2008 January 25, “Lesbians turn "gayelle"”, in The Daily Telegraph:"By choosing gayelle, the feminine factors in “the equation of who is gay and who is not” can reassert their interest in the word gay, as well as, assert a displeasure for the word lesbian," the website reads.
2011 January 26, tootie, “More labia-loving lesbos cumin' out in Hollywood”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):Geri Jewell, who played Blair Warner's cousin Geri for a few seasons, has fully come out as a labia-loving lesbian in her new memoir!!! Cousin Geri not only talks about being a gayelle, but she also writes about being the first person with a disability to play a recurring character on TV and how she hit rock bottom when she got into the bad shit.
2018 June 11, Simon Abrams, Alex de Campi, “The Pros and Cons of 'Ocean's 8'”, in Hollywood Reporter:Cate Blanchett, whose leather and velvet and satin wardrobe was handed down from Lesbian Jesus specifically for the enjoyment of gayelles everywhere!