0 a public event, often held outside, where you can take part in competitions and buy small things and food, often organized to collect money for a particular purpose:
1 to praise or welcome someone publicly because of their achievements:
2 a special celebration, often for a particular purpose, or to honor someone:
I hope that will assure vicars, scout masters and women's institute presidents that their fetes are not under threat.
I do not think it is a fair comparison to talk about lotteries for cakes at village fetes.
Clause 49 provides for the closing or limiting of traffic on promenades during fetes and other functions.
By means of extraordinarily hard work and appeals, and by putting on fetes, it will probably succeed.
I gave an undertaking that no other fetes would be allowed.
We gamble in casinos, at church fetes, at charity functions and even in pubs where there are various draws.
Two children's intensive-care cots were provided for the local hospital by people in the area joining together and raising money through fetes, collections and raffles.
I am not concerned with small lotteries that are incidental to fetes, dinners, dances and sporting events.
