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Charivari

noun
1.
A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.  Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree.






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"Charivari" Quotes from Famous Books



... their senses by showers of what they thought must be black snow. On the 9th of April, the lava began to overflow, and ran for five miles in a southwesterly direction, whilst, some days later,—in order that no element might be wanting to mingle in this devil's charivari,—a vast column of water, like Robin Hood's second arrow, split up through the cinder pillar to the height of several hundred feet; the horror of the spectacle being further enhanced by an accompaniment of subterranean ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... people in the next village, who have had smallpox and cattle plague pretty badly, and by the help of a wizard, a currier, and several pigs have passed it on to his own village. 'Wants to know if they can't be run in for this awful crime. It seems they made a dreadful charivari at the village boundary, threw a quantity of spell-bearing objects over the border, a buffalo's skull and other things; then branded a chamur—what you would call a currier—on his hinder parts and ...
— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Charivari" :   callathump, chivaree, serenade, shivaree



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