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A mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, etc
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shivaree
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Wikipedia
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Shivaree was an Americana band formed in 1997 consisting of Ambrosia Parsley (vocals), Danny McGough (keyboard), and Duke McVinnie (guitar). Shivaree is best known for the song " Goodnight Moon ", released in 1999 and appearing in Dawson's Creek , Kill ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1843, earlier sherrie-varrie (1805), alteration of charivari . Century Dictionary describes it as "vulgar, southern U.S.;" OED describes it as "U.S. and Cornwall."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charivari \Cha*ri`va*ri"\, n. [F.] A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult; -- called also shivaree . Syn: shivaree, charivari, callithump, callathump. Note: It was at first performed before ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple [syn: chivaree , charivari , callithump , callathump , belling ]
Usage examples of shivaree.
Buddy satisfy me and still others were all this while trying to climb up onto the balcony, and Buddy was getting madder and the shivaree boys were getting louder and .
I know that for a fact, you see, because Buddy shot five of the shivaree bunch with that mean little gun.
As was Wil Meyers who Janie said might have been the first to suggest the shivaree crowd help her new groom with his marital responsibilities.
The boys who were being young and silly at the shivaree those years ago were all the young men of their particular generation who grew up here.
Every one of them was a member of that shivaree party that kept Buddy out of my pants on our wedding night.
I wanted to keep Man sober, and I tried to get him and his wife out of town before that shivaree of yours was pulled off.
The climax of the grand shivaree outside had arrived and now the presence of Gerry Carlyle was expected.
And I bet tonight every one of the survivors is hiding under his damned bed, wondering if he will be the next one of those Shivarees to die.
It was Cece, with some of his crowd, and the Harper boys (who ought to have known better) who organized the shivaree when the Dempsters moved.