- a variation of gaiety.
gayety
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gayeties
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A bachelor with gayety, tact, discretion, he gave himself up entirely to his President for work or play.
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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.
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Damascus was too Oriental for gayety, but not for long.
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Casual U. S. readers supposed this meant that Edward of Wales would eschew gayety for some weeks.
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We had luncheon in the dining-room, darkened, too, against the heat, and drank down nervous gayety with the cold ale.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient.
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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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She joined in all our little gayeties; she laughed with us.
From The Heart's Country by Mary Heaton Vorse
She found Mr. Varick pleasantest when he was asking after her sick mother, and telling her what New York gayeties used to be before the beginning of his long European absence.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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