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gayety

American  
[gey-i-tee] / ˈgeɪ ɪ ti /

noun

plural

gayeties
  1. a variant of gaiety.


Example Sentences

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At night, he and his friends would hit Central and absorb jump-blues and bop at spots such as Downbeat, the Gayety Jungle Room and an upstairs club called Lovejoy’s.

From Los Angeles Times

"He doesn't add much to the gayety."

From Literature

“There was a note of sluggishness, an absence of real gayety,” Meyer Berger wrote in a front-page article in The Times on Jan. 1, 1943.

From New York Times

“Her gayety,” Harriet Monroe wrote, “seemed like jewels on a skull.”

From Literature

All the gayety which Wang Lung had never had from his labor on the land was held here in the walls of this house, where men met to play and never to work.

From Literature