revelous
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Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French reveleus.
Adjective
[edit]revelous
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “revelous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.