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1
dressy clothing
- attendees of the masquerade ball arrived dressed in all their gaiety
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2
joyful or festive activity
- loved the gaiety of the annual harvest festival
- the gaiety of the wedding reception
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3
a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter
- the gaiety of children enjoying an outing at an amusement park
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- jollification,
- jollity,
- reveling
- (or revelling),
- revelry
- buffoonery,
- clownishness,
- flippancy,
- funning,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jocoseness,
- jocosity,
- jocularity,
- joking,
- joshing
- frolicking,
- gamboling
- (or gambolling),
- rollicking,
- romping
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The first known use of gaiety was in 1634
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