revelry
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Etymology edit
From Middle English revelrye; equivalent to revel + -ry.
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revelry (countable and uncountable, plural revelries)
- Joyful or riotous merry-making.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.
- 2007, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
- [During a wedding] As evening drew in and moths began to swoop under the canopy, now lit with floating golden lanterns, the revelry became more and more uncontained.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
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joyful merry-making
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