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fêtes — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Yule noun Christmas, or the wider Christmas season running through the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Senses

fêtes is used for these senses in English:

  • Yule Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25th and January 5th).

Yule — full definition

  1. noun Christmas, or the wider Christmas season running through the Twelve Days of Christmas.
  2. noun An older midwinter festival celebrated by pre-Christian Germanic and Norse peoples, still observed today by some modern pagans.
  3. interjection An old exclamation of Christmas cheer.