fête

plural fêtes

1. UKalternativeformalAlternative spelling of fete.

   The sexton and his companion had been employed as carpenters on the preparations for the celebrated Stratford Jubilee; and they remembered Garrick, the prime mover of the fête, who superintended the arrangements; […]

   1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Stratford-on-Avon”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VII, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 62

present singular third person fêtes · participle present fêting · participle past fêted · past fêted

1. UKalternativeformalAlternative spelling of fete.

   For three days Emmanuel Macron was wooed and fêted by Donald Trump, treated to marching bands and banquets.

   2018 April 27, William Cook, “Are Macron and Merkel playing good cop, bad cop with Trump?”, in The Spectator

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   Most men, and most parties, and most nations, can gain no triumph over their opponents, without fêting and anniversarying it for ever after.

   1841 March 27, “Misplaced Pride”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume X, number 478, London: […] W[illiam] S[omerville] Orr and Co., […], published 1842, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73, column 3

   This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular or fêted here.

   1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic