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feting

[feyt, fet] Origin

fete

[feyt, fet] noun, plural fetes, verb, fet·ed, fet·ing.
noun
1.
a day of celebration; holiday: The Fourth of July is a great American fete.
2.
a festive celebration or entertainment: The ball was the greatest fete of the season.
3.
a religious feast or festival: a fete lasting several days in honor of a saint.
verb (used with object)
4.
to entertain at or honor with a fete: to fete a visiting celebrity.

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Feting is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Also, fête [feyt, fet; Fr. fet] .


Origin:
1745–55; < French fête, earlier feste feast

un·fet·ed, adjective

fate, fete (see synonym note at fate).
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Word Origin & History

fete
1754, from Fr. fête "festival, feast," from O.Fr. feste (see feast). First used in Eng. by Horace Walpole (1717-97). The verb is from 1819. Related: Feted; fetes
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