单词 | revelry |
释义 | revelryn. The action or an act of revelling; boisterous mirth or merrymaking; (also in plural) lively entertainments; wild or noisy festivities, esp. those involving drinking.In quot. 1810: joyous song. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous riotingc1390 revelling1395 revelc1400 revelryc1410 revel-rout?1499 jetting1509 deray?a1513 company keeping1529 banqueting1535 roistingc1560 wassailinga1586 riotise1590 roister-doisterdom1592 reels1603 roaring1617 ranting1633 rattle1688 high jinks1699 roistering1805 spree1808 wassailry1814 revelment1822 Tom and Jerryism1822 spreeing1845 to be on the roister1860 riotousness1882 whoopee1928 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > joyful song carol1303 lilt1728 revelry1810 evangel1842 c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Cambr. Dd.4.24) (1902) l. 4005 Only for here myrthe and reuelrye [c1405 Hengwrt reuerye] vp-on the wardeyn..they crye To ȝeue hem leue..To go to Mille and sen here corn I-grounde. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 11 v In her masking sute, the spangled skie, Come forth to bride it in her reuelrie. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 175 Meane time, forget this new-falne dignitie, And fall into our Rusticke Reuelrie. 1637 J. Milton Comus 5 Meane while welcome Joy, and Feast, Midnight shout, and revelrie. 1684 J. Harington Grove 8 Whilst danc'd their Antick Revelries. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 78 The Fairy People throng, In various Game, and Revelry to pass A Summer-Night. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 79 Revelry, and dance, and show, Suffer a syncope. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 99 The lark sent down her revelry. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 22 A something in the midst of their revelry and riot that chilled and haunted them. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 26 There is no drunken revelry in Sparta. 1936 Morning Post 15 July 14/5 There is a section of the community..whose life seems to consist of cocktail and sherry parties, cabarets and midnight revelries... These are decadent ‘bright young things’. 1981 Globe & Mail (Nexis) 25 Dec. Carols..were originally dance-songs included in festive revelries all the year round. 1989 ‘J. le Carré’ Russia House i. 17 For the fifty minutes of revelry that remained, Niki Landau threw his heart into the party. 1993 M. Angelou Wouldn't take Nothing for my Journey Now 63 Naturally, during this revelry jokes were told. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1410 |
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