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gaiety

[gay-i-tee] / ˈgeɪ ɪ ti /


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The general gaiety of the show doesn’t mean the photos here are slight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Just seven blocks over and five blocks up from where the shell casings hit the sidewalk, they gathered for gaiety in a glitzy ballroom.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2025

In 1842, the Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette wrote: "Such a scene of gaiety was never before witnessed on Salisbury Plain… Parties of gentlemen and elegantly dressed ladies were scattered about in all directions."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023

Beneath the gaiety and carousing ran an undercurrent of anguish: The country remains locked in a ferocious war with Russia.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Kate’s lips were smiling sweetly and a gaiety was coming over her.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The enchantment of the terrace operates suddenly to make these people's glib and pessimistic gaieties, when turned to a parody of the past, rekindle its most significant moments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until the night of the shooting there were very few people who thought that Stanford White was overfond of gaieties.

From Time Magazine Archive

The price tag for the gothic gaieties: $25,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was reported that in Manhattan, at the height of the gaieties of a Russian ball, a toy balloon, playfully 'touched with a lighted cigarette, exploded, set fire to my hair.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Blenheim the party started on a seventy-mile motor-drive to Nelson, an expedition enlivened by similar scenes, though the solemn gaieties of the Maoris did not occur again.

From Down Under With the Prince by Sara Jeannette Duncan


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