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
Next year's centennial shivaree will symbolize this pride.
From Time Magazine Archive
In short, we were treated to a shivaree, or charivari.
From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
