merrymakings

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Neither she nor Toni took any part in the village merrymakings.

From True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office by Train, Arthur Cheney

Sometimes, for days together, she would be left alone in the house, while Dame Martha and Margaret dressed themselves up in all their finery, and went off to fairs and merrymakings in the neighboring town.

From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Harrison, Constance Cary

Dedications of churches and feasts of martyrs had been general merrymakings.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

The elders among the people tell the stories at their merrymakings around the camp-fires and within their primitive houses, to amuse and instruct the youth and children.

From Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India by Fleeson, Katherine Neville

Weddings were merrymakings in my time: 39 The reckoning seldom came till the morrow’s morn.

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson