Word to the Wise: Disport
To "disport" (dis-PORT) – from the French for "to divert" – is to amuse oneself in a light or lively manner.
Example (as used by Eliot Gregory in Worldly Ways and Byways): "Few of the ‘carriage ladies and gentlemen’ who disport themselves in Newport during the summer months… realize that their daintily shod feet have been treading historic ground, or care to cast a thought back to the past."
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