merrymakings
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P. 92 original "merry-makings" changed to more frequent "merrymakings."
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
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 Constance Cary Harrison
Among these men we can scarcely believe there were many festivities or merrymakings.
From Stories of New Jersey by Frank Richard Stockton
They have cast off, it is true, many of their ancestors' games and merrymakings, but they have in no degree lost their soul of mirth and happiness.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 by Various
But he had been over fond of merrymakings and junketings.
From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
