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ca·rous·al
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noun
a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse entry 2 sense 1 He staged mockeries of religious ceremonies and his interminable drunken carousals became obligatory entertainment for many a weary guest.—Richard Wortman
… the general was remarkably addicted to huge entertainments, or rather carousals …—Washington Irving
“喧闹的饮酒狂欢”,1735年,源自 carouse(动词)+ -al(2)。更早的名词是简单的 carouse “饮酒狂欢”(1550年代)。
The first known use of carousal was circa 1760
carousalnoun
carouse
1 And he farther testified that at sundry times during the succeeding month, he had been often awaked at late hours of the night, by their midnight carousals; and alarmed by their abuse of each other.
2 I shared a room with L�on, whose window immediately overlooked the barn wherein our men were still enjoying the unexpected carousal.
3 Hold your carousals to Robin's espousals, Lifting rich cups for the wine of the sky!
4 He could tell this by the brigands still keeping up their carousal outside.
5 He was back at Christmas for a two weeks carousal, and when he hit the trail again he carried with him several gallons of whiskey.
6 She evidently had not fully recovered from her carousal of the night before, and in her half stupid, half hysterical condition, moaned and prayed as if some terrible calamity had befallen her.
7 A very little table covered with a white cloth, and on which were displayed several bottles, reminded the crowd of loafers who assembled expectant as the darkness came on, that a carousal was meditated.
8 His superb verse was to the soul what wine is to the body; producing a grand and glorious thrill—a very carousal of intellectual enjoyment.
9 Some seigneurs, out on a carousal, attempted to do violence to a woman.
10 A few days later, an incident occurred, which afterwards, through the carousals of many a winter evening, supplied an absorbing topic of anecdote and boast to the braggadocio heroes of the border.
11 Shore leave with no opportunity for a drunken carousal, was to him like the play of Hamlet with the principal character altogether omitted.
12 Wine flowed like a river, and the scenes of carousal were of unprecedented extravagance.
13 Boisterous, drunken merrymaking; a carousal.
饮宴;喧嚣的狂欢作乐;狂欢。
14 Bishop Hall says in his description of a carousal, “Then comes me up a service of shoeing-horns of all sorts,—salt cakes, red-herrings, anchovies, and gammon of bacon, and abundance of such pullers on.”
15 Some powerful or painful reflection must have been causing his absent-mindedness; and it seemed a relief to him when, satiated with carousal, the convives gave tacit consent to a general débandade.
16 In his feasts and his drinking bouts we find none of that robust and full-toned mirth, which reigned at the rude carousals of our barbaric ancestry.
17 Witnesses said he walked along the carousals and did not say anything as he shot people as they tried to run or hide.
18 Also, avoid trying to use the classic, rotating carousal for any strategic advantage.
19 A cloister extends from the church to the priory-house; where the tourist, as he paces the refectory, or great dining-room, may speculate on monkish carousals, where blue-eyed nuns, were jovially toasted, and secret confessions anticipated.
20 Or more appropriately, “a bout or spell of drinking to intoxication; binge; carousal.”