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Definition of Gayeties
1. gayety [n] - See also: gayety
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gayeties
| gaybo gayborhood gayborhoods gaybourhood gaybourhoods gayboy gayboys gaydars gaydom gayelles | gayers gayest gayeties (current term) gayety gayfaces gayfeather gayish gaylus-site gaylussite gayly | gaymers gaymos gayne gayned |
Literary usage of Gayeties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... for Doing an Act of Charity—gayeties of Green Arbor Court—Letter to his
Brother—Life of Voltaire—Scroggins, an Attempt at Mock-Heroic Poetry. ..."
2. Social Life in the Early Republic by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1903)
"XII MID-CENTURY gayeties THE Washington life of the days of Presidents Van Buren,
Polk, Taylor, and Fillmore presented many of the ..."
3. Memoirs of Wilhelmine, Margravine of Baireuth by Wilhelmine, Helena Augusta Victoria (1888)
"spi-nt in fetes and gayeties, I at last returned to ... The gayeties, the late
nights, and the great confidence he reposed in Berghofen had prevented his ..."
4. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835)
"It will diversify the scene, and may give you a higher relish for the gayeties
of the court, when you return to Versailles. In these wishes, and in most ..."
5. Autobiography of an Actress; Or, Eight Years on the Stage: Or, Eight Years by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854)
"New Physicians. — Recovery of Sight. — Parisian gayeties. — Description of Ball
at Colonel T n's. — The Carnival. — General C ss. — Rachel and her Sisters. ..."
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