- a variation of gaiety.
gayety
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gayeties
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He looked tired and had abandoned his familiar pose of gayety.
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Her father reproaches himself for having made his wife spend her life so far from the village whose gayety she had loved.
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Gay flowers beckoned to be plucked for coat lapels; breezes would blow at hair loosed in vernal gayety.
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The article's least complimentary part was gently ironic: "Thus did he add to the gayety of nations, the enlightenment of the people, and win the nomination."
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"It couldn't be helped!" cried Daisy with tense gayety.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I too love France, love all her splendors, her attractions, her gayeties.
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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.
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For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient.
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It transpired later that the gayeties of Brighton, whither the team had gone to put the finishing touches on its training, had been too much for it.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
"And you have a more peaceful and happy life than the London citizens, I'll be bound," said he, "with all their feasts and gayeties and the noise of drums and the like."
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
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