gaiety
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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
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
"Asteroid City's eccentricity, its elegance, its gaiety, and its sheer profusion of detail within the tableau frame make it such a pleasure," he wrote.
From BBC ● May 24, 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
James Joyce had a lovely phrase in Finnegans Wake: "The hereweareagain gaieties."
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
But how do you know about those gaieties of Aleman and his pals?
From Time Magazine Archive
Encouraged by the shouts, cheery or derisive, of Provincetown's Portuguese fishermen, the fleet then set out across Massachusetts Bay for Marblehead, for the first formal gaieties of the cruise.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the whole of the week the poor bride has to sit in the reception room on a cushion specially prepared for brides, and takes no part in the surrounding gaieties.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith
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