Lord of Misrule
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Lord of Misrule
First recorded in 1490–1500
Example Sentences
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He was, Bradford wrote, "the Lord of Misrule" – the archetype of a dangerous type who Puritans believed create mayhem, including at Christmas.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2020
Simon Callow narrates Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, a look at the career of the late comic, while Mrs Brown's Boys returns for a two-part special.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2014
He became known as the King of the Bean because of how he was chosen and also as the Lord of Misrule due to the mayhem that occurred while he presided over Carnival.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2014
The passage is from Jaimy Gordon's novel "Lord of Misrule," which surprised many by winning the 2010 National Book Award for fiction with a bleak, harsh-tongued glimpse of marginal lives at a West Virginia track.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2011
If the Sultan was the Lord of Misrule to English imagination in 1853, the Czar was the embodiment of despotism, and even less amenable to the modern ideas of liberty and toleration.
From Lord John Russell by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)
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