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

This week Johnson, already proclaimed a candidate by Fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, let his true love show, saddled up for a fast political shivaree in four nearby states.

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout New England the noisy bridal serenade is a nourishing practice, going by such names as horning, shivaree, skimmelton, skimmington, warming, housewarming, sendoff, rouser, jamboree, waking-up, bellin', tin pan shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bienvenu," said little White, "don't shivaree old Poquelin to-night; he's"— "My fwang," said the swaying Bienvenu, "who tail you I goin' to chahivahi somebody, eh?

From Old Creole Days by Cable, George Washington