HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR WILLIAM E. LURIE!
I do believe the word of the day is not "gazEbo" - but "gazAbo."
According to languagehat.com:
GAZABO
A slang term from the early part of the last century meaning 'guy, fellow' or (according to Howard N. Rose's 1934 A Thesaurus of Slang) 'a friend or companion.' Jack London in Valley of the Moon (1913) uses it thus: "By the sixth round the wise gazabos was offerin' two to one against me."
...From a poem by Edwin Honig, "The Gazabos":
I saw them dancing,
the gazabos, apes of joy, swains of
their pocket mirrors, to each a world:
a dancing, a gallumphing, a guzzling
of themselves...
And on that note (b-flat), good-night, Dear Gazabos.