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 records of the Session one finds a chronicle of the sins, eccentricities, and merriments of the people for the last two or three centuries.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

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 Elton, Charles Isaac

The custom of making fools on the 1st of April is one of the few old English merriments still in general vogue.

From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)