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gayety

[gey-i-tee]

noun

plural

gayeties 
  1. a variant of gaiety.



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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.

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“You haven’t seen stripping till you’ve seen Tempest,” Gayety Burlesk manager Abe Attenson told The Washington Post in 1966.

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

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“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.

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

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