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Initially gossip about the French parties (5)

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I believe the answer is:

galas

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'parties' is the definition.
(a gala is a party or social event)

'initially gossip about the french' is the wordplay.
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
'the french' becomes 'las' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The initial letters of 'gossip about' is 'ga'.
'ga'+'las'='GALAS'

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(Another definition for galas that I've seen is " Bashes".)

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