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Definition of Gala affair

1. Noun. A gay festivity.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gala Affair

Literary usage of Gala affair

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"Gould and Fisk also had steamers of the "floating palace" order running from New York to Fall River, the summer trips of which were a gala affair. ..."

2. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"That function has always been a resplendent and gala affair. The diplomats are there in their glittering uniforms and decorations. ..."

3. The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe (1914)
"The simplest meal seems a gala affair when everyone is radiant and cheerful, whereas a long and elaborate meal served indoors is usually depressing. ..."

4. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society, Albert Bigelow, Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) (1909)
"The excursion of the Badger State was a gala affair, shared in, as the receipts attest, by a large number of excursionists, who found a lake ride an ..."

5. Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau (1918)
"The occasion was a splendid and a gala affair. The Sultan attended in state; he sat under a beautifully decorated tent where he held a little court; ..."

6. Connecticut as a Colony and as a State: Or, One of the Original Thirteen by Forrest Morgan, Ellen Strong Bartlett, Frank R Holmes, Jonathan Trumbull (1904)
"Sometimes the return of their released ones was made quite a gala affair, as, when the survivors of the Sixteenth reached the Cape Fear River, ..."

7. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"Her reception was not the gala affair it would have been under ordinary circumstances, but it was of far more real interest because of the extraordinary ..."

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