revel-rout

English

Etymology

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Noun

revel-rout (countable and uncountable, plural revel-routs)

1. (obsolete) Tumultuous festivity; revelry.
   • 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore:

     My Brother, Reſt and Pardon to his Soul.
     Is gone to his Account for this his Minion,
     The Revel-rout is done

2. (obsolete) A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “revel-rout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)