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 Émile Zola
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 James H. Stark
Her birthday's our fete day, We'll make it our great day, And give her our presents And sing her our song.
From The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit
To-morrow their lands will be given them and the boundaries determined, but let to-day be a fete day, a day of rejoicing.
From Mohammed Ali and His House by Mrs. Chapman Coleman
This was to be a fete day in the royal palace of Berlin.
From Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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