The word regale has appeared in 10 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 7 in “At 116, She Has Outlived Generations of Loved Ones. But Her Entire Town Has Become Family” by Soumya Karlamangla:
From then on, Ms. Ceccarelli’s birthday each year has been marked by a party, a lunch or, in the Covid era, a parade, open to all Willits residents. Often wearing a colorful scarf and pearls, she would pass on her wisdom on how to live a long life: “Have a couple of fingers of red wine with your dinner, and mind your own business.”
Other years, she would regale guests with stories of bygone days, of meeting a man who had lunched with Abraham Lincoln or of hearing all the bells in Willits ring on Nov. 11, 1918, signaling the end of World War I.
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