ariot

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Etymology

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From a- (on, in) +‎ riot.

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ariot (not comparable)

  1. (postpositive) Filled with or involving rioting or riotous behaviour.
    • 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Law of the Yukon”, in Songs of a Sourdough[1], Toronto: William Briggs, page 8:
      In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare,
      Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;
    • 1935 February, Robert E. Howard, chapter 5, in Weird Tales:
      It was a red drama of the primitive—destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter.
  2. (postpositive) Filled in an unrestrained manner.
    • 1896, Octave Thanet (pseudonym of Alice French, “The Captured Dream” in A Book of True Lovers, Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897, p. 262,[2]
      [] a white fence glittered in front of an old fashioned garden ariot with scarlet salvias and crimson coxcomb.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day[3], Penguin, published 2012:
      The rooms seemed to run on for blocks, stuffed with automata human and animal assembled and in pieces, disappearing-cabinets, tables that would float in midair and other trick furniture, Davenport figures with dark-rimmed eyes in sinister faces, lengths of perfect black velvet and multicolored silk brocade a-riot with Oriental scenes []

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