merriments

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If as much by wishful thinking as by design, it had both the U.S. women’s and men’s national teams on center stage in each of those merriments.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2019

Yet despite the merriments, Christmas can be a stressful time for presidents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2015

In the midst of the merriments of the mutations of Time, Pierre hath ringed himself in with the grief of Eternity.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

But court is always May, buds out in masques, Breaks into feather'd merriments, and flowers In silken pageants.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

It was printed in 1594, the title-page stating that it had been "acted sundry times by Edward Alleyn and his company," and that it contained "Kempe's applauded merriments of the men of Gotham."

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman