单词 | dancing and deray |
释义 | > as lemmasdancing and deray 3. Disorderly mirth and revelry as in a dance or similar festivity. Chiefly in the alliterative phrase dancing and deray. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous riotingc1390 revelling1395 revelc1400 revelryc1410 revel-rout?1499 jetting1509 deray?a1513 company keeping1529 banqueting1535 roistingc1560 wassailinga1586 riotise1590 roister-doisterdom1592 reels1603 roaring1617 ranting1633 rattle1688 high jinks1699 roistering1805 spree1808 wassailry1814 revelment1822 Tom and Jerryism1822 spreeing1845 to be on the roister1860 riotousness1882 whoopee1928 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 127 For din nor danceing nor deray, It will not walkin me no wise. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. xi. (heading) Of the banket, and of the gret deray, And quhou Cupyd inflambis the lady gay. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 262 Was nevir in scotland hard nor sene Sic dansing nor deray. 1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 65 Wi' lowpin', dancin' and deray. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 247 There were..dancing and deray within. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xii. 93 So have we seen fond weddings..celebrated with an outburst of triumph and deray, at which the elderly shook their heads. 1892 Daily News 2 Dec. 5/2 The dancing and deray were so public that all classes had their share of the fun. < as lemmas |
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