gaieties
- plural of gaiety.
Example Sentences
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The idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Until the night of the shooting there were very few people who thought that Stanford White was overfond of gaieties.
From Time Magazine Archive
But how do you know about those gaieties of Aleman and his pals?
From Time Magazine Archive
James Joyce had a lovely phrase in Finnegans Wake: "The hereweareagain gaieties."
From Time Magazine Archive
During the whole of the week the poor bride has to sit in the reception room on a cushion specially prepared for brides, and takes no part in the surrounding gaieties.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.
