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
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 J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
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
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 Hans Mattson
