rigamarole
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rigamarole (countable and uncountable, plural rigamaroles)
- (chiefly US) Alternative form of rigmarole
- 1899, Stephen Crane, The Monster:
- Speak out like a man, and don't give me any more of this tiresome rigamarole.
- 1914, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Crime and Punishment, part II, ch 4:
- A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole.
- 1934, Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey[1]:
- Then I figured he'd missed my point, and I went through the whole blamed rigamarole again, and it ended the same way, with Tweel on his nose in the middle of my picture!