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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

So Al- Mutalammis and his wife abode together in all comfort and solace of life and in all its joys and jollities till death parted them.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood

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