merrymaker

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Chief among them is Cornelis Dusart’s colorful “Shrovetide Revelers Entering a Courtyard,” in which pre-Lent carousing has gotten so out of hand that one merrymaker squats to relieve himself in public.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2012

From movies to theme parks to retail products, Disney is the hottest all- around merrymaker in America.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Cora, the family merrymaker, was quiet, until aroused from her reverie by an act of her brother who replenished the fire.

From The Daughter of a Republican by Babcock, Bernie

He must have been a corpse even when I took him for a merrymaker.

From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Juanita Sterling unavoidably brushed Miss Crilly on the way across, and smiled pleasantly, to which that middle-aged merrymaker responded with a whispered, "Ain't you swell, a-goin' with the president all the evening!"

From Polly and the Princess by Dowd, Emma C.