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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carousal

Carousal \Ca*rous"al\, n. [See Carouse, but also cf. F. carrousel tilt.] A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.

The swains were preparing for a carousal.
--Sterne.

Syn: Banquet; revel; orgie; carouse. See Feast.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
carousal

1735, from carouse (v.) + -al (2). The earlier noun was simply carouse "a drinking bout" (1550s).

Wiktionary
carousal

n. 1 A noisy feast with much alcohol consumption. 2 A loud and noisy social gathering. 3 Joining with friends to drink alcohol.

WordNet
carousal

n. revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, bender, toot, booze-up]

Usage examples of "carousal".

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

In an establishment, I might add, which I chose for our lodgings due to its very notoriety as a hotbed of carousal and debauchery.

Meanwhile, utilizing my powers of disguise and misdirection, I will insinuate myself into an obscure corner of the common room, unnoticed by all, there to observe and overhear the loose words which your carousal with the plebes will cause them to guardlessly utter.

And lively was the drinking within that royal hall,-- An honest Yule carousal engaged the champions all.

It is but too well known that the Saxons love not the Norman race, and who knows what may be the issue if he break in upon them when their hearts are irritated by the death of Athelstane, and their heads heated by the carousal in which they will indulge themselves?

From reading he passed to sleeping, from sleeping to gossip in drawing rooms of the Club, from gossip to carousals and women.

Pierre received him unwillingly at first, but got used to him after a while, sometimes even accompanied him on his carousals, and gave him money under the guise of loans.

His carousals, too, were not of the most quiet kind, nor were his potations as mild as nectar.