fete day
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fete day
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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The humorous weekly Life and The Chicago Tribune had been for some time agitating a restricted use of fireworks on the national fete day, but nevertheless the list of casualties kept creeping to higher figures.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
This was to be a fete day in the royal palace of Berlin.
From Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
Although it is a fete day you will be my witness that we have not found a man off duty or the worse for drink.
From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard
Douglas, I didn't mean to talk of this just now, for it's a horrid subject, and to-day is a fete day.
From The Survivor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
It ought also to have been a fete day for Jasmin himself.
From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Samuel Smiles
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