fête champêtre

[ fet shahn-pe-truh ]

noun,plural fêtes cham·pê·tres [fet shahn-pe-truh]. /fɛt ʃɑ̃ˈpɛ trə/. French.
  1. an outdoor festival or a garden party.

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How to use fête champêtre in a sentence

  • We will imitate the fête champêtre of Charles and Catherine held on the isle of the Adour.

  • They were the very things, at least he thought so, for a picnic or fête champêtre, but he was not prepared to ride in them.

    Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope
  • Compare a fête champêtre of the good old style with the village festivals, so-called, of to-day.

    The Simple Life | Charles Wagner
  • It was a huge, royal fête champêtre, in which the river Elbe seemed to run with champagne.

    Francezka | Molly Elliot Seawell
  • It was absolutely a fête champêtre, but more brilliant and classic than Watteau ever can have seen.

    From Edinburgh to India & Burmah | William G. Burn Murdoch

British Dictionary definitions for fête champêtre

fête champêtre

/ French (fɛt ʃɑ̃pɛtrə) /


nounplural fêtes champêtres (fɛt ʃɑ̃pɛtrə)
  1. a garden party, picnic, or similar outdoor entertainment

  2. Also: fête galante (fɛt ɡalɑ̃t) arts

    • a genre of painting popular in France from the early 18th century, characterized by the depiction of figures in pastoral settings. Watteau was its most famous exponent

    • a painting in this genre

Origin of fête champêtre

1
C18: from French, literally: country festival

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