fête

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Trinidadian soca star Iwer George thrives fête after fête

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  1. A feast; a holiday; a festival-day.
  2. Fête champêtre a festival or an entertainment in the open air; an outdoor entertainment, such as a large garden-party. The battue system developed into the sort of fête champêtre, with hot lunch, champagne, and liveried attendants, ridiculed to our amusement on the stage. S. Dowell, Taxes in England, III. 281.
  3. Fête Dieu the feast of Corpus Christi (which see, under corpus).
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  • If anyone wonders about the image it is one of the posters for "Jour de fête" (I've removed some details from the original image) not that it matters on this "Jour de tristesse" ... —  Martin Klasch
  • In autumn 2008, they stormed the German-Polish border, playing a Green Party fête where Daniel Cohn-Bendit (aka "Dany le Rouge"), one of the leaders of the May 1968 student protests in France, danced his ass off (photographic evidence available). —  PlugInMusic.com
  • Hum … vous cherchiez des idées de nourritures à servir à des invités à une fête d'Halloween? —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • For more on the fête, —  Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures
  • Trinidadian soca star Iwer George thrives fête after fête —  Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue
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  1. French, from Old French feste, later Middle English feste, English feast: see feast.
  2. from French fêter, keep as a festival, feast, entertain, from fête, n.: see fête, and cf. feast, v.
 

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