merry-making
Example Sentences
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In time, entrepreneurs set up bigger tents, brought in pianos for merry-making and “good, clean, cheap fun, even on Saturday nights, when the stevedores, oil drillers, and sailors wandered in from Santa Monica …”
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2022
Lula’s Garden Joy Garden: Send a sweet plant gift with this set that includes two merry-making succulents tucked into a gift box that serves as a planter.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021
It’s not enough to spend five days a week with your dear colleagues; you must put in a few extra off-hours of chitchat and merry-making for good show.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2014
Evidence of sustained merry-making is perhaps hanging off our waists.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2014
The May Day merry-making was stopped and even the Gild festival prohibited.
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden
