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Gaiety Gallantry (See CHIVALRY.) butterfly orchis symbol of gaiety. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 172] the 1890s, a decade of carefree and exciting days in America. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 162] pastoral idyll celebrating gaiety and cheerfulness. [Br. Lit.: Milton “L’Allegro”] festive day celebrated at the close of the pre-Lenten season in France and in New Orleans. [Fr. and Am. Trad.: EB, VI, 608] the 1920s decade of the Jazz Age and the boom years before the depression. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 515] indicates light-heartedness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Nor was her residence at her mother's house of a nature to restore her gaiety. I am far from well, beloved, and have lost all my gaiety of disposition, but I send you this letter as a token of my love, devotion, and respect, Oh dear lady of my affections. Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring. |
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