A day designated for feasting.
1It was a fete day and the wolves were singing and dancing.
2This was to be a fete day in the royal palace of Berlin.
3Another abbot, in the richly-embroidered habiliments of a fete day, stood by his side.
4Saturday, the fifteenth of August, was as little like a religious fete day as one can imagine.
5Some persons saw the 25th of August, which was the fete day of the Empress, arrive with feelings of curiosity.
6To-morrow their lands will be given them and the boundaries determined, but let to-day be a fete day, a day of rejoicing.
7Yesterday was a fete day, and the base of the column and half its height are lost in a mass of flowers and evergreens.
8Although it is a fete day you will be my witness that we have not found a man off duty or the worse for drink.
9The New Yorker, July 25, 1970 P. 77 Description of the celebration on July 14th of Bastille Day, France's greatest annual fete day.
10As in all French towns Argentan knows how to decorate on fete days.
11This is the National Fete day of France.
12On grand fete days, when etiquette demands it, we shall dine together, but preside at separate tables.
13The king had forbidden that the churches should be opened except on Sunday and the regular fete days.
14These days of hard work become fete days, as the owner stakes his honour on serving a good meal.
15But the firm also forgot to allow for the ecclesiastical calendar, and the stoppage of work on the numberless fete days.
16All the pleasures of girlhood, even her fete days, were dearly purchased, for she was scolded for her gaiety as much as for her faults.
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