merrymakings

You have become a stranger to your friends; you shun merrymakings; you keep away from the marketplace and from the dwellings of men.

He appears to have been himself one of the people, a poet who possibly made his living by reciting poems of incident, and by singing at their merrymakings, though of this there is no evidence.

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.

He is fond of merrymakings, drunken assemblies, doctors' visits, and children's feasts.

Lady Washington joined her husband in February, and there was an added dignity to 197 the kettledrums and merrymakings in consequence.