merriments
Example Sentences
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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
This gorgeous-broider'd with rich sentences: That fair and purfled round with merriments.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
Mr. Secretary Pepys gave a great library to Magdalen College at Cambridge: but among the folios peeped out little black-letter ballads and 'penny merriments, penny witticisms, penny compliments, and penny godlinesses.'
From The Great Book-Collectors by Charles Isaac Elton
For to what purpose were it to clog our stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff, unless our eyes and ears, nay whole mind, were likewise entertained with jests, merriments, and laughter?
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
