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

Said Oregon Governor Tom McCall: "It looked like a hoedown, a shivaree."

From Time Magazine Archive

The musicians broke out into a thunderous and bumpy piece, and the dancers began some sort of Slavic folk dance that looked like a combination of a kazotska and a shivaree.

From Supermind by Janifer, Laurence M.