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carouse
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Word definitions for carouse in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carouse \Ca*rouse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caroused ; p. pr. & vb. n. Carousing .] To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. He had been aboard, carousing to his mates. --Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Middle French carousser "drink, quaff, swill," from German gar aus "quite out," from gar austrinken ; trink garaus "to drink up entirely." Frequently also as an adverb in early English usage ( to drink carouse ).
Usage examples of carouse.
Nevertheless, the constant feasting and orgies of the rude Gallic troops at the sacrificial banquets were an ongoing scandal to the refined and delicate Antiochians, who night after night suffered drunken, carousing foreign soldiers rampaging through their streets, and were unable to hide their resentment.
So, while you guys are drinking and carousing, I will be in the occult bookstore and scanning the shelves at the Botanica to get answers.
Carthaginian and Capuan revellers had been carousing there, and several of the shops had been broken open.
When Gunter and his thanes were not out raiding or hunting, they spent their time carousing in the hall, wagering on contests of strength and song.
Demons caroused to Lord Juss deep draughts in honour of this day of his nativity.
The next Legree heard of his mother was, when, one night, as he was carousing among drunken companions, a letter was put into his hand.
While this conversation was passing in the chamber, Legree, overcome with his carouse, had sunk to sleep in the room below.
The thought of finicky Lotte Dietrich, the dour old manhunter Cassius Potter, and laid-back Hector Motlaletsie carousing among the frozen fleshpots of Torngat made me smile.
All through the meal, while the Ontarian caroused and the Freetowners chattered, the New Providencian had kept silent.
As the carouse continued and the champagne did its work, the talk grew racier, and the anecdotes more outrageous.
Out in the streets, the various guilds and groups that ruled Shuttlefield were carousing beneath the autumn sun: handmade banners flew above tents and shacks, while drunks staggered about with beads around their necks and wildness in their eyes, proclaiming everyone they saw to be their best friend.
With the magic the witchwoman taught them, they combated demons or outwitted trolls, rode noble unicorns or caroused with dragons.
Instead of the wild, carousing buccaneers, Jane saw the ordinary people who kept the town functioning.
Even when the buccaneers who had been carousing the night before stumbled out to start their day, they were hung over.
It had a desperate reputation, morally, in the old keel-boating and early steamboating times--plenty of drinking, carousing, fisticuffing, and killing there, among the riff-raff of the river, in those days.