fête champêtre
Americannoun
noun
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a garden party, picnic, or similar outdoor entertainment
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Also: fête galante. arts
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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
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a painting in this genre
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Etymology
Origin of fête champêtre
C18: from French, literally: country festival
Example Sentences
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It swelled to 100 guests and was followed by two dinners and a fête champêtre in England.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2013
Sir W. Very pretty, my dear: and I am glad there are to be tents, otherwise a fête champêtre in the month of March would give me the rheumatism even to think of.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 08 by Edgeworth, Maria
Such was a fête champêtre in the sixteenth century,—filled in with all the luxuriant pomp and splendor which the French love so dearly.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
I intend to give a grand fête champêtre soon, as a lesson to these Gloster people how to enjoy life.
From Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan
One morning, when Clarence Hervey happened to be present, the baronet thought it incumbent upon him to eclipse his rival in conversation, and he began to talk of the last fête champêtre at Frogmore.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 03 by Edgeworth, Maria
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