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reveller|ˈrɛvələ(r)|
Also 4 reuelour, 5 reuelowre, 7 -our; 6–7 reuel(l)er; 6 revellar.
[f. revel v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who takes part in a revel, merry-making, or festivity; one who is given to revelling, or leads a disorderly life.
c1386Chaucer Wife's T. Prol. 453 My fourthe housbonde was a reuelour, This is to seyn, he hadde a paramour. c1440Promp. Parv. 431/2 Reuelowre. 1530Palsgr. 262/2 Revellar, carellevr. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 80 b, These maskers and reuellers them disuisered, shewinge them what persons thei were. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 19 Thee father almighty..Mewed vp theese reuelers. 1611Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 61 He is call'd The Britaine Reueller. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 33 The barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 678 For other ends they shine, Than to light revellers from shame to shame. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xvii, The jokes and laughter of the revellers. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. ii, They were now passing by the stunted trees, under which sat several revellers. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. v. 98 The revellers start and separate.
2. One who delights in something.
1860J. W. Warter Sea-Board II. 205 Finding me..a reveller in the exquisite scenery. |