revelry

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Etymology

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From Middle English revelrye; equivalent to revel +‎ -ry.

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revelry (countable and uncountable, plural revelries)

  1. 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.

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