fete day
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fete day
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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One evening, Nana having announced that her name, too, was Therese and that her fete day was the fifteenth of October, the gentlemen all sent her presents.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
The day she was able for the first time to sit up a while, in an armchair wheeled by the bedside, was a fete day to the four Americans in the Couronne hotel.
From The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
The Church consecrated the day of the miraculous deliverance a fete day observable by Greeks forever.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis
My daughter and granddaughter go to the Catholic burying-ground at Hadminster on her fete day, to dress her grave with immortelles.'
From The Young Step-Mother by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Paris made a fete day when she imagined Sampson's fleet was destroyed.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
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