gala vs long weekend

gala

noun
  • Pomp, show, or festivity. 

  • A showy and festive party. 

  • A competition 

  • A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. 

adj
  • Celebratory; festive. 

long weekend

noun
  • A weekend extended by one or more days off falling on a day or days immediately preceding or following it. 

How often have the words gala and long weekend occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )