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jollities

British  
/ ˈdʒɒlɪtɪz /

plural noun

  1. a party or celebration

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Stan's last surviving relative became coy and refused to enter into the jollities.

From The Guardian Aug. 15, 2011

A great outpouring of grief and anger and sorrow and doubt had to take place before the certainties and jollities of the mature writer could come into being.

From The New Yorker Jun. 6, 2005

Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque.

From Time Magazine Archive

His sunken cheeks out to the size Of most unnatural jollities, Because Anacreon looked jest-wise.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

She gave her father and Nan glowing accounts of the delightful times she had had at Fern Falls and the jollities of a country house party in the winter time.

From Patty's Social Season by Wells, Carolyn

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