The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fete \F[^e]te\ (f[asl]t), n. [F. See Feast.] A festival.
F[^e]te champ[^e]tre[F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.
WordNet
n. a party of people assembled for social interaction out of doors [syn: garden party, lawn party]
Usage examples of "fete champetre".
And so the festive meeting took place near the headwaters of the Onion River south of High Vrazel, in a pretty part of the forest where the bulbuls sang amid the giant ferns and blossoming trees dropped petals on a scene of rustic splendor The King and Queen of the Firvulag, sixty of their most discreet courtiers, an honor guard of Wamor Ogres and Ogresses, and almost the entire strength of the royal culinary corps starred in a day-long fete champetre that completely overawed the innocent Howlers.