- a variation of gaiety.
gayety
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gayeties
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Less than nothing was added to the midtown New Year's Eve gayety.
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.
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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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Excellently adapted by Melville Baker from the play by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete, it moves with the same swift alternations of gayety and sadness as the Hungarian waltzes with which it is scored.
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"It couldn't be helped!" cried Daisy with tense gayety.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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I too love France, love all her splendors, her attractions, her gayeties.
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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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If young Nelligan retired, half in pride, half in bashful-ness, from the notice of society in Dublin, he was assuredly little disposed to enter into the gayeties and dissipations of a small country-town existence.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
These parties were brilliant affairs, socially, but besides, we young people had many informal gayeties.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
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