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Fete sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Fête sb. [a. F. fête: see FEAST sb.]

1   1.  A festival, an entertainment on a large scale.

2 1754.  H. Walpole, Lett. (1857), II. 308. They were pressed to stay for the great fête at St. Cloud.

3 1779.  Sheridan, Critic, III. Wks. 1873, II. 184. I suppose Thames and all his tributary rivers, to compliment Britannia with a fête in honour of the victory.

4 1818.  Byron, Mazeppa, iv.        And then he gave prodigious fêtes— All Warsaw gathered round his gates To gaze upon his splendid court, And dames, and chiefs, of princely port.

5 a. 1839.  Praed, Poems (1864), I. 212, ‘Lidian’s Love,’ xvi.        And titled dames gave fêtes upon the water, To introduce him to their angel daughter.

6 1849.  Thackeray, Pendennis, i. To see that his name was down among the guests at my Lord So-and-so’s fête.

7   2.  The festival of the saint after whom a person is named; in Roman Catholic countries observed as the birthday is in England.

8 1840.  Thackeray, Paris Sk.-bk. (1869), 143. It is the fête of little Jacob yonder, whose brothers and sisters have all come from their schools to dance at his birthday.

9 1877.  [see 3].

10   3.  attrib., as fête-day; also fête-contractor, one who contracts to provide a fête or entertainment.

11 1817.  J. Scott, Paris Revisit. (ed. 4), 270. The towns of France have all their particular fête days.

12 1877.  J. T. Fields, Underbrush (1881), 224. A Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fête-day, a bouquet.

13 1885.  Mabel Collins, The Prettiest Woman in Warsaw, viii. Life was like one long fête day. She was absolutely happy at home.

14 1886.  York Herald, 7 Aug., 2/5. Public caterer, decorator, and fête contractor.

15   Hence Fêteless a., having no fête.

16 1861.  Cunningham, Wheat & Tares, 50. The poor fêteless children haunted him.

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