jollification

• Sometimes, when the marines or sailors had any special jollification, they were permitted to invite Plain-Buttons as they called him. —  AHMM, April 2002
• Almost without exception, the entire membership of 270 accepted the invitation, and a week's jollification was held at Glen Eyrie and in this city in August, 1907. —  Gazette.com :
• Miss Blake listened with apparent interest to her description of her evening's jollification, and when she had finished gave her an especially tender good-night kiss, saying God bless you, my Nan. —  The Governess
• Accordingly, when Eric came in with Wildney about half an hour after, Owen and Montagu heard them talk about ordering some brandy, and then arrange to have a "jollification," as they called it, that evening They got the brandy through "Billy." —  Eric, or Little by Little
• Some houses have stringed bands concealed behind barriers of flowers playing soft music, but in the main the dinner is a jollification, a symposium of stories, where the guests take a turn at telling tales. —  As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home

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