Fete
[feɪt]
Definition
(n.) A feat.
(n. pl.) Feet.
(n.) A festival.
(v. t.) To feast; to honor with a festival.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Feast, FESTIVAL, holiday, festive celebration.
v. a. Feast, honor with an entertainment.
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Examples
- There's a Drawing Room, or a grand day in the Park, or a Show, or a Fete, or what you like. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Each had made such preparation for the fete as seemed necessary and proper. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The fete was magnificent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He amused the company with accounts of the army in Belgium; where nothing but fetes and gaiety and fashion were going on. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Everybody was asked to the fetes of the marriage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At all this simple little creature's fetes, the grandes eaux were accustomed to play. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Crowds of foreigners arrived for the fetes, and of English, of course. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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