fête champêtre
Americannoun
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fêtes champêtres
plural
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
If I could have spent my fifty dollars in verbs, in taking a journey, in giving a fête champêtre!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
Several days now sped by with no fresh developments, and Don Pedro was almost constantly engaged in his preparations for the fête champêtre.
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
To spend as much to furnish your dressing room with flowers in winter as would suffice to turn the Pantheon into a greenhouse, and give a fête champêtre at Christmas!
From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.
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