How To Use Charivari In A Sentence
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Dans son jardin «magique», un cabanon fait office de temple et de cabinet de consultation : un charivari mystico-ésotérique tendu de rouge, un bric-à-brac saturé d'encens, de statuettes païennes et religieuses, de pentacles et de bougies.
Carmen : The Last Witch
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Such a charivari as ensued, for just as my tugs at the alarm-bell began to take effect, the clock struck twelve, and the waits set up outside my window in quavering tones, with their teeth chattering from the cold, an old-fashioned lilt.
A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
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In the universities of Southern France, the marriage of resident doctors and students was also contemplated, and the statutes of the University of Aix contain a table of charges payable as "charivari" by a rector,
Life in the Medieval University
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Charivari drink Rioja the dodger Could a crafty change of grape mean a change in fortune?
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The charivari is a custom that the Canadians got from the French, in the
Roughing It in the Bush
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What we need to do is redevelop charivaris, shaming rituals, to show them their behaviour is just not acceptable.
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It is related to other means of social control that arise in communities, such as charivari, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering.
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Athough skimmingtons and charivaris differed from place to place, they all contained similar elements.
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Dan was full of a wild idea that we should all meet them at the gate, armed with cowbells and tin-pans, and "charivari" them up the lane.
The Golden Road
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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 drove him and a number of pigs over into Jelbo's village.
Under the Deodars
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Regional Note: Shivaree is the most common American regional form of charivari, a French word meaning "a noisy mock serenade for newlyweds" and probably deriving in turn from a Late Latin word meaning "headache.
The WELL: Sugaree
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But I can tell you that a charivari is not always a joke.
Roughing It in the Bush
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The popping of revolvers, the clanging of cow bells, the clash of tin boilers -- all that medley of discord which lends volume to the horror known as a charivari -- tore to shreds the harmony of the night.
A Man Four-Square
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The charivari is a custom that the Canadians got from the
Roughing It in the Bush
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Deeply influenced by cultural anthropology, they have found in the often surprisingly rich documentation about festivals, processions, charivaris etc.
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On her first evening in Gopher Prairie Cy had appeared at the head of a "charivari," banging immensely upon a discarded automobile fender.
Main Street
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Here, too, he delineates his subject through a series of paradoxes: do English charivari and Skimmington rides represent punishment or celebration?