gayeties
- plural of gayety.
Example Sentences
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When Marceline came back to the Hippodrome in 1915 after a trip abroad, his crowds were already beginning to prefer the silent flutter of faces on a screen to the gayeties of a nimble droll.
From Time Magazine Archive
I too love France, love all her splendors, her attractions, her gayeties.
From Time Magazine Archive
For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was delighted with the house and garden; the Journal tells of all manner of pleasant gayeties.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
These parties were brilliant affairs, socially, but besides, we young people had many informal gayeties.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
