gayety
Americannoun
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He looked tired and had abandoned his familiar pose of gayety.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is still a good deal of Gay if not gayety left in the piece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Casual U. S. readers supposed this meant that Edward of Wales would eschew gayety for some weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
No less accomplished a talent than Ethel Waters is sprightly Marilyn Miller, who always seems illumined by a bright inward gayety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her manner was languid, and her gestures without that gayety which had so marked her before.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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