shivaree
Example Sentences
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He readily took to the idea of a shivaree, which, to quote Dictionary.com, is “a mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021
Some scenes, like James Cagney’s spontaneous hoofing in “Other Men’s Women” or the frontier shivaree in “The Purchase Price,” are choreographed.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017
The Teamsters convention in Miami Beach last week began like a summer shivaree.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this year the still spiny "Cactus Jack" gaveled down the traditional birthday shivaree that in years past has drawn such guests as Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and the late Sam Rayburn.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I understand just what this shivaree means.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Day, Holman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
