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wassailer|ˈwɒsələ(r), ˈwæsələ(r)|
[f. wassail v. + -er1.]
One who takes part in riotous festivities; a reveller.
1634Milton Comus 179, I should be loath To meet the rudenesse, and swill'd insolence Of such late Wassailers. 1794Coleridge Relig. Musings 284 O pale-eyed form, The victim of seduction,..Who in loathed orgies with lewd wassailers Must gaily laugh, while [etc.]. 1821Byron Sardan. ii. i, Sar. And you will join us at the banquet? Sal. Sire, Dispense with me—I am no wassailer. 1844Disraeli Coningsby v. ii, A rather boisterous party of wassailers who had been celebrating at Buckhurst's rooms the triumph of ‘Eton Statesmen’. 1882Standard 18 Feb. 5/2 Christopher North pictures the wassailer of the ‘Noctes Ambrosianæ’ as revelling in a plenitude of Pandores.
†b. One who takes part in Twelfth-night or Christmas-tide ‘wassailing’. Obs.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Wassellers..such as in the Country go about from House to House, during the Festival of Christmas, and sing Catches for Drink or other small Boon. 1817N. Drake Shaks. & Times I. vi. 130 The persons thus accompanying the Wassal bowl, especially those who danced and played, were called Wassailers. 1912J. B. Partridge in Folk-lore XXIII. 455 Wassailers still go round at Randwick, Woodchester, [etc.].., and probably many other villages [in Gloucestershire]. |