jollities
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
In the days following, came the jollities of Class Day, the joint celebration of the Societies, the Musical Concert, and lastly, the annual address by the President, with the conferring of Diplomas.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee
Little Lucy was to lead the Christmas night jollities, and only the Santa Claus himself knew what would follow the wave of the long Chinese wand which she carried.
From Little Sky-High The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang by Butterworth, Hezekiah
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