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单词 fête
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fêten.

Brit. /feɪt/, U.S. /feɪt/, /fɛt/
Forms: late Middle English 1700s– fete, 1700s– fête.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French fette, feste, fête.
Etymology: Originally < Anglo-Norman fette, variant of feste feast n. In later use reborrowed < French fête feast n., which is also used in the sense ‘person's name day or saint's day’ from 1690. Compare earlier feast n., festival n.Compare German Fete festival, celebration (1771 as Fête ), (now usually, colloquial) party (party n. 13a) (mid 20th cent.; < French).
1.
a. An entertainment on a large scale; a festival, a celebration.This sense is now rare in British English.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun]
fête1422
feast1485
triumphc1503
triumphal1605
vitulation1607
tamasha1623
set-out1818
hui1858
1422 in A. T. Bannister Reg. Thome Spofford (1919) 81 (MED) Comyn wakes or fetes, spectacles and other worldly vanytees.
a1425 (?c1375) N. Homily Legendary (Harl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 21 (MED) [The lion] rafe him sunder ilk lim fro lim..He made gude fete, And of þe remenand hundes ete.
1752 H. Walpole Let. 28 Oct. in Corr. (1960) XX. 308 The great fête at St. Cloud.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic iii, in Wks. (1873) II. 184 I suppose Thames..to compliment Britannia with a fête in honour of the victory.
1819 Ld. Byron Mazeppa iv. 143 He gave prodigious fêtes.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 212 Titled dames gave fêtes upon the water.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. i. 3 The guests at my Lord So-and-so's fête.
1952 S. Selvon Brighter Sun ii. 34 He was thinking about all the ‘fetes’ in Port of Spain he would miss.
1987 Korea Newsreview 19 Sept. 25/1 The Venice festival, along with film festivals in Berlin and Cannes, is regarded as one of the world's three most prestigious film fetes.
2016 @SanDiego_Alpine 24 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 23 July 2019) The 3-day fete features dozens of performers on multiple indoor and outdoor stages.
b. British. A public bazaar or similar event, typically held outdoors, organized to raise funds for a good cause through games, competitions, and stalls selling goods and refreshments. Cf. festival n. 4.See also church fête n. (b) at church n.1 and adj. Compounds 2, school fete n. at school n.1 Compounds 5a.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > bazaar, jumble sale, or sale of work
bazaar1807
fair1826
fête1830
festival1843
church fair1844
sale of work1859
rummage sale1890
jumble-sale1898
jumble1931
mini-market1976
1830 Morning Post 20 July The state of the weather destroyed the elements of the Fête, as well as the intended exhibition of stands in various parts of the grounds.
1893 C. M. Yonge & C. R. Coleridge Strolling Players v. 37 We can act at Primrose fétes, and do good in that way.
1894 W. Pater Let. 19 June (1970) 268 Sincere congratulations on the success of the Fête.
1966 Amateur Gardening 24 Sept. 35/1 I would far rather do a dozen broadcasts, or lectures, than open a fete. Everybody is standing around, waiting to go and spend their money on the tombola or the raffles.
2019 @HWFireKingsland 20 July in twitter.com (accessed 23 July 2019) We took part in the annual tug of war at Aymestry village fete today.
2. In Roman Catholic tradition: the festival of the saint after whom a person is named, celebrated in the manner of a birthday; a person's name day or saint's day.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > of saint
commemorationa1400
suffragesa1400
saint's daya1450
memorial?1471
feast1559
memoration1563
name day1721
fête1805
Hallow-daya1825
calendar-day1847
fête day1877
slava1900
1805 C. Wilmot Let. 7 Dec. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 207 The Princess & I being Names sakes she was resolved this Fête should be double celebrated, & therefore the eve of the day a solemn Mass was held.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 290 It is the fête of little Jacob yonder, whose brothers and sisters have all come from their schools to dance at his birth-day.
1923 E. E. La Branche Amer. Battery in France viii. 132 She answered: ‘It is my fête, Monsieur, my saint's day.’
2009 @melanieberliet 31 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 23 July 2019) Forgot, as usual, that it's my fete (Saint Melanie's Day!).

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier, as in fête day, fête raffle, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > festival-time
fête dayc1759
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > day or season of
high tideOE
high dayOE
feast dayc1300
ferie1377
festival day1389
feastful day1440
festivala1500
gaudy-day1567
carnival1598
utas1600
saturnal1605
Saturnalia1639
terminals1656
days of gala1716
fête dayc1759
mirth-day1778
season1791
festa1800
jour de fête1806
fiesta1844
fest1846
Winterval1982
the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > birthday
birthdayc1384
nativitya1393
native day1546
birthnight1637
fête day1877
b-day1938
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > of saint
commemorationa1400
suffragesa1400
saint's daya1450
memorial?1471
feast1559
memoration1563
name day1721
fête1805
Hallow-daya1825
calendar-day1847
fête day1877
slava1900
c1759 in J. H. Harting Hist. Sardinian Chapel (1905) 15 For seven Sundays, and three fete days, dinners for the seven chaplains.
1877 J. T. Fields Underbrush (1881) 224 A Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fête-day, a bouquet.
1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. viii. 125 Life was like one long fête day.
1945 A. E. Philipps Chaste Cocotte xiv. 90 The house was less immense than imposing, particularly on a fête night when the place gleamed with lights.
1989 B. Greetham How to Write Better Ess. 35 There is no enticing message with promises of gifts and untold wealth for the lucky person who wins the fête raffle.
C2.
fête-contractor n. now rare a person who contracts to put on a fête or entertainment.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > entrepreneur
fête-contractor1867
1867 Standard 3 June 5/5 The fête-contractors of Paris have been instructed to hold themselves in readiness.
1886 York Herald 7 Aug. 2/5 Public caterer, decorator, and fete contractor.
1935 Times 2 Mar. 2/7 Amusement and fête-contractors are invited by the Council to tender for the exclusive right..to hold fêtes..on a portion of the Old Deer Park, Richmond.

Derivatives

ˈfêteless adj. Obsolete rare not provided with a fête.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > [adjective] > having no fête
fêteless1860
1860 H. S. Cunningham Wheat & Tares iv, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 122/2 The poor fêteless children haunted him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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