jollifications

He spoke particularly of what he called the jollifications usual at elections.

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

There may have been other popular "jollifications" of this kind, for example at the Neptunalia on July 23, where we find the same curious custom of making temporary huts or shelters; [462] but this is the only one of which we have any account by an eye-witness.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

We were clearly having a good time, and we were, frankly, drinking too much, and the show was kind of an unwelcome interruption of the days jollifications when we used to go on tour.

Mike Ragogna: The Old Magic: A Conversation with Nick Lowe, Plus Sharif's "I Don't Miss You" Premiere Mike Ragogna 2011

We were clearly having a good time, and we were, frankly, drinking too much, and the show was kind of an unwelcome interruption of the days jollifications when we used to go on tour.

Mike Ragogna: The Old Magic: A Conversation with Nick Lowe, Plus Sharif's "I Don't Miss You" Premiere Mike Ragogna 2011

In July, expect the usual impertinent jollifications in Key West: look-alike and Key-lime-pie-eating contests, arm-wrestling tournaments.

Resurrecting Papa 2008

Dances were part of most celebrations, holidays, or jollifications.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

There were young painters with the strongest natural taste for low humour, comic singing, and Cyder – Cellar jollifications, who would imitate nothing under Michael Angelo, and whose canvases teemed with tremendous allegories of fates, furies, genii of death and battle.

The Newcomes 2006

Let us imagine the stings of remorse keeping him wakeful on his dingy pillow; the horrid jollifications of other hardened inmates of the place ringing in his ears from the room hard by, where they sit boozing; the rage and shame and discomfiture.

The Virginians 2006

This discourse will appear at the season when I have read that wassail-bowls make their appearance; at the season of pantomime, turkey and sausages, plum-puddings, jollifications for schoolboys; Christmas bills, and reminiscences more or less sad and sweet for elders.

Roundabout Papers 2006

‘I think I can trust myself for that,’ said Dick, whose hand at the moment was on a bottle of whisky, and who had been by no means averse to jollifications at Cambridge.

John Caldigate 2004