- a variation of gaiety.
gayety
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Damascus was too Oriental for gayety, but not for long.
From Time Magazine Archive
"In 1914, as a man already old, I was witness to the courage, gayety and fortitude of Paris under the German bombardment!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Actor Lunt, brought face to face with his pre-War inamorata, exerts all his gayety, willfulness, passion in an attempt to gain just one more night with her.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bachelor with gayety, tact, discretion, he gave himself up entirely to his President for work or play.
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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