Other forms: fetes
A fete is an outdoor entertainment held to raise money. The village fete, open the fete, a summer fete.
The British village fete has a fixed cast: a tombola, a cake stall, a bottle stall and somebody guessing the weight of a cake. It is spelled with a circumflex in French and usually without one in English. Feast and fiesta are the same word.
1nounfeteAn outdoor entertainment held to raise money.
“The school fete raised enough money to buy new books for the library.”
fete is an event.
French fete comes from Latin festa, festivals. Feast, fiesta and fest are all the same word.
French
fête
English, today
fete
The noun derives from French fête. a doublet of feast and fiesta and fest*.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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