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fete
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Definition:A festival.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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The fête at the colonel’s lasted a long while. There was a great deal of drinking. They tossed Serpuhovskoy in the air and caught him again several times.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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I do it for the church fete every year—or did, before the War; suppose I’ll do it again now.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I heard of her often in town, and I used often to take her and the Brandleys on the water; there were picnics, fête days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures,
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There was surprising pomp and magnificence; there were fêtes, carousals, continual opera bouffe; and all Italy composed sonnets in my praise, though not one of them was passable.
Voltaire. Candide
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