misrule

Example Sentences

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Let’s be glad we’ve had our splendidly outrageous, utterly harmless Prince of Misrule.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2017

Simon Callow narrates Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, a look at the career of the late comic, while Mrs Brown's Boys returns for a two-part special.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2014

He became known as the King of the Bean because of how he was chosen and also as the Lord of Misrule due to the mayhem that occurred while he presided over Carnival.

From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2014

Even horses are massaged into characters with emotional lives: the goofy Little Spinoza, the gutsy Lord of Misrule.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011

The Lord of Misrule also made merry at Christmas at this period; but it sometimes happened that when he went forth with his band of merry men, they got into trouble.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis