revelries
- plural of revelry.
Example Sentences
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Nothing stops a virus or contagious bacteria is its tracks like keeping isolated — even if it means missing out on holiday revelries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Puritan efforts to crack down on Christmas revelries in England before 1620 had little impact.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2020
The coronavirus may have silenced traditional revelries for the Fourth of July, but officials and others still aim to celebrate the country’s birthday using creativity, technology and safety.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
Both festive enough for Louisiana’s pre-Lenten revelries and simple enough to make any other time of the year.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2014
His nights he spent in revelries with the planters, to whom he made presents of rum and sugar, sometimes, when he grew moody, laying them under contribution, and even176 bullying his confederate, the villainous governor.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
