What does merry-making mean?

merry-making

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English

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"It is true, that two clowns, who drove before them a herd of cattle—one or two village wenches, who seemed bound for some merry-making—a strolling soldier, and a wandering student, as his thread-bare black cloak and his satchel of books proclaimed him—passed our travellers without observation, or with a look of contempt; […]"

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