=Gavar´ni=, the pseudonym of Sulpice Paul Chevalier, the great caricaturist of the French _Charivari_ (1803-1896). =Gavroche= (_2 syl._), type of the Parisian street arab.—Victor Hugo, _Les Misèrables_ (1862). =Gawain= [_Gaw´’n_], son of King Lot and Morguase (Arthur’s sister). His brothers were Agravain, Ga´heris, and Ga´reth. The traitor Mordred was his half-brother, being the adulterous offspring of Morgause and Prince Arthur. Lot was king of Orkney. Gawain was the second of the fifty knights created by King Arthur; Tor was the first, and was dubbed the same day (pt. i. 48). When the adulterous passion of Sir Launcelot for Queen Guenever came to the knowledge of the king, Sir Gawain insisted that the king’s honor should be upheld. Accordingly, King Arthur went in battle array to Benwicke (_Brittany_), the “realm of Sir Launcelot,” and proclaimed war. Here Sir Gawain fell, according to the prophecy of Merlin, “With this sword shall Launcelot slay the man that in this world he loved the best” (pt. i. 44). In this same battle the king was told that his bastard son Mordred had usurped his throne, so he hastened back with all speed, and in the great battle of the West received his mortal wound (pt. iii. 160-167).—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_ (1470). Of Arthurian knights, Gawain is called the “Courteous,” Sir Kay the “Rude and Boastful,” Mordred the “Treacherous,” Launcelot the “Chivalrous,” Galahad the “Chaste,” Mark the “Dastard,” Sir Palomides (_3 syl._) the “Saracen,” _i.e._ unbaptized, etc. =Gawky= (_Lord_), Richard Grenville (1711-1770). =Gaw´rey=, a flying woman, whose wings served the double purpose of flying and dress.—R. Pultock, _Peter Wilkins_ (1750). =Gay= (_Walter_), in the firm of Dombey and Son; an honest, frank, and ingenuous youth, who loved Florence Dombey, and comforted her in her early troubles. Walter Gay was sent in the merchantman called _The Son and Heir_, as junior partner, to Barbadoes, and survived a shipwreck. After his return from Barbadoes, he married Florence.—C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846). =Gayless= (_Charles_), the penniless suitor of Melissa. His valet is Sharp.—Garrick, _The Lying Valet_ (1741). =Gaylords= (_The_). Village family in good circumstances. _Squire Gaylord_, shrewd lawyer, with one tender place in his heart—his love for his only child. _Mrs. Gaylord_, a calvinistic invalid, in awe of her imperious lord. _Marcia Gaylord_, headstrong village beauty, who elopes with Bartley Hubbard, a newspaper man; goes with him to Boston; shares his capricious fortunes; adores and is madly jealous of him and goes home to nurse her sick mother, without her husband’s consent. He sues for a divorce, prevented by her father’s arrival prepared to give the other side of the question.—W. D. Howells, _A Modern Instance_.