fête champêtre
noun
an outdoor festival or a garden party.
fêtes champêtres
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pluralof fête champêtre.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But such as they are in their shops, and back-parlours, and ball-rooms, and fêtes champêtres, there they are in Paul de Kock—nothing extenuated, little set down in malice—vain, empty, frivolous, good-tempered, gallant, lively, and absurd.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
The summer tournaments and fêtes champêtres, and the winter festivals and masquerades, were attended by all the beauty and chivalry of the land.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
The fêtes champêtres of the Venetian masters are here anticipated in the prose of the trecento.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Many an afternoon and night the clubs of young gentlemen gave fêtes champêtres and dances.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Instead of attempting to cling to the skirts of Society as a vendor of champagne or an organiser of fêtes champêtres, he—to use his own words—decided to cut the whole show.
From The Gloved Hand by Burton Egbert Stevenson
