fête champêtre
an outdoor festival or a garden party.
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How to use fête champêtre in a sentence
At evening we were invited to a fete champetre on a fine lake some forty miles north of the city and 800 feet elevated above it.
A Summer's Outing | Carter H. HarrisonThe Fete Champetre would fill volumes: by all accounts dull ones.
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2) | Edward Gibbon
British Dictionary definitions for fête champêtre
/ French (fɛt ʃɑ̃pɛtrə) /
a garden party, picnic, or similar outdoor entertainment
Also: fête galante (fɛt ɡalɑ̃t) arts
a genre of painting popular in France from the early 18th century, characterized by the depiction of figures in pastoral settings. Watteau was its most famous exponent
a painting in this genre
Origin of fête champêtre
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