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Meanings of charivari in English
Folk custom.
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Synonyms
Examples for "shivery"
Examples for "shivery"
1
She said it made her go all cold and shivery all over.
2
My bedroom's right above the kitchen and I woke up all shivery.
3
Her body throbbed, shivery tremors racing in riotous arcs across her skin.
4
Abruptly his mind grasped the thread linking together all this shivery confusion.
5
It makes me feel shivery to even think of such a thing!
1
In a storm on Hallowe'en is heard the belling of his hounds.
2
I heard the belling tower in the distance and gave a deep sigh.
3
Each vessel embedded in a web of bridges, suspended by gently belling walkways.
4
But, like belling the cat, it is easier said than done.
5
Before too long we heard the belling tower striking noon.
1
I hope you shivaree Man and his wife-andshivaree 'em good.
2
Well, anyway, when Bill and the girl got married, the boys came to 'shivaree' them.
3
I came to tell you that there's a scheme to raise-to'shivaree' you two, tonight.
4
But I understand just what this shivaree means.
5
It was like ordering a serenade of angels, and getting a shivaree in place of it.
1
Seton lives in Halifax and they NEVER chivaree people there.
2
It was more like the "chivaree" with which ironic crowds tormented bridal couples back in Nimrim, Mo.
3
But when they explained to me just how a chivaree was carried on, naturally I wanted in on the action.
4
I was only about nine years old, and I can't remember much about that one and only chivaree I ever attended.
5
"Well, it's the only chance we'll have to chivaree them," grumbled Dan.
1
Up to this time he knew nothing of the skimmington -ride.
Usage of charivari in English
1
He was delighted with my charivari, and then he said to me:
2
But I can tell you that a charivari is not always a joke.
3
A few days after the charivari affair, Mrs. D--stepped in to see me.
4
There will be a charivari in my rooms tonight.
5
I have even heard talk of getting up a 'charivari' under the windows on the wedding-night.
6
The play opens with an abominable charivari.
7
Some of the charivari party had to fly, or they might have ended their days in the penitentiary.
8
A man was killed up at W--the other day, and two others dangerously wounded, at a charivari.
9
Try to let us know the day as we have resolved to give you a serenade (or charivari).
10
She resigned from the post-office to marry him, and San Pasqual took a night off to give her a charivari.
11
The charivari is a custom that the Canadians got from the French, in the Lower Province, and a queer custom it is.
12
From that hour the charivari ceased, and the old lady was left to enjoy the society of her young husband in quiet.
13
A set of wild fellows have met to charivari Old Satan, who has married his fourth wife to-night, a young gal of sixteen.
14
On her first evening in Gopher Prairie Cy had appeared at the head of a "charivari," banging immensely upon a discarded automobile fender.
15
Jasmin's next poem was The Charivari (Lou Charibari), also written in Gascon.
16
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol.
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Charivari through the time