revelous

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French reveleus.

Adjective

revelous

1. Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or revel.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Shypmans Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     A wyf he hadde of excellent beautee; / And compaignable and revelous was she.

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References

• “revelous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.