feu de joie

Historical Examples of feu de joie

• The salute that announces our departure will be a 'feu-de-joie' to both of us.

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I

  Various

• Our feu-de-joie was speedily explained, and the men flocked into the inn.

  The Land of the Black Mountain

  Reginald Wyon

• Thirteen cannon came pealing up from Fort Putnam, which were followed by a feu-de-joie rolling along the lines.

  The Hudson

  Wallace Bruce

• I thought it must either be a sort of feu-de-joie, or a funeral, and it turned out to be the latter.

  Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade

  William Surtees

• The crowd, which had been popping off its feu-de-joie of jokes, steadied into silence to watch the old man climb to his seat.

  Boy Woodburn

  Alfred Ollivant