Gaiety (redirected from merriment)

Gaiety

See also Cheerfulness, Joviality, Joy.

Gallantry (See CHIVALRY.)

butterfly orchis

symbol of gaiety. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 172]

Gay 90s

the 1890s, a decade of carefree and exciting days in America. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 162]

“L’Allegro”

pastoral idyll celebrating gaiety and cheerfulness. [Br. Lit.: Milton “L’Allegro”]

Mardi Gras

festive day celebrated at the close of the pre-Lenten season in France and in New Orleans. [Fr. and Am. Trad.: EB, VI, 608]

Roaring Twenties, the

the 1920s decade of the Jazz Age and the boom years before the depression. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 515]

shamrock

indicates light-heartedness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]