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gaiety

[gey-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

The gaiety and laughter from the Big House reached all through the quarter.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

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

From Time Magazine Archive

James Joyce had a lovely phrase in Finnegans Wake: "The hereweareagain gaieties."

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Kennedy campaign always had the hereweareagain gaieties, that Irish quality of politics as frolic, overlaid with a unique elegance and a ruthlessness that advanced upon you with the brightest of teeth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before Cicely was married her brothers had generally brought a few men down for these local gaieties, but for the past two years there had been no party from Kencote.

From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald




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