c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 453 My ferthe housbonde was a reuelour This is to seyn, he hadde a peramour.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 7 Dauncen he koude so wel and iolily That he was clepyd Perkyn Reuelour [v.rr. reuolour, reueloure, reuellour, reueilloure, reveilour].
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena (Harl.) (1966) 278 (MED) Thei ben also trecherous and veniable rybawdis and reuelours.
1548 f. lxxxv These maskers and reuellers them disuisered, shewyng them what persons they were.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil i. 3 Thee father almighty..Mewd vp theese reuelers.
a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. vi. 62 He is call'd The Britaine Reueller . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton vii. 33 The barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers . View more context for this quotation
1745 E. Young 36 For other Ends they shine, Than to light Revellers from Shame to Shame.
1797 A. Radcliffe II. vi. 180 The jokes and laughter of the revellers.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. ii. 33 They were now passing by the stunted trees, under which sate several revellers.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe I. v. 118 (stage direct.) The revellers start and separate.
1922 S. Weyman (1926) xxxii. 375 Revellers..on their way from the Raven or the Talbot.
1975 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran iv. 131 The sage, scornful of drama and display, feels quite as remote from the saint as from the reveler.
2005 (Nexis) 5 May 4 (heading) Revellers from the north west could be given ‘codes of conduct’ to stop them causing trouble in European cities.