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lavender lad

noun

Etymology

Coined by U.S. federal senator Everett Dirksen in the 1950s. From the association with femininity of the color lavender. An alliterative construct, pairing lad (“boy”) and lavender.

Definitions

  1. A homosexual male.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA