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

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

Thus, Mr. Editor, is harvest home spent in that county, and I send you the only account I can furnish of the harvest merriments, hoping some of your correspondents will add to my little mite.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 by Various

The festivities and merriments were arranged so that every guest had perfect liberty and sufficient time to follow his own taste.

From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Mattson, Hans