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Definition of Merrymakings
1. merrymaking [n] - See also: merrymaking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Merrymakings
Literary usage of Merrymakings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Putnam's Monthly (1907)
"They are not the real merrymakings of Vienne, however; the real merrymakings are
the pat- ronal and communal fetes. The fete of St. Jean Baptiste, ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"They are not the real merrymakings of Vienne, however; the real merrymakings are
the patronal and communal fêtes. The fete of St. Jean Baptiste, ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"They are not the real merrymakings of Vienne, however; the real merrymakings are
the pat- re mal and communal ..."
4. Studies of the Gods in Greece at Certain Sanctuaries Recently Excavated by Louis Dyer (1891)
"... Archipelago in carnival time to-day to see a tolerably good reproduction in
modern surroundings of what has always characterised Aegean merrymakings. ..."
5. Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of the New York Historical Society by New-York Historical Society (1915)
"... and afterwards under Bernard Schendel. His subjects, representing merrymakings
and drunken assemblies, are similar to those of Schendel. ..."
6. The Progress of Nations; Or the Principles of National Development in Their (1861)
"So far does this extend, that in their very merrymakings, which one would have
thought ... Compare the rude merrymakings of the Norwegians, thc Tyrolese, ..."
7. The commercialization of leisure by James Peyton Sizer (1917)
"These coarse and illicit merrymakings remind one of the unrestrained merrymakings
of Restoration London, and they are indeed their descendants, ..."