roysterer

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Fortnoye is a roysterer, latterly occupied in extending the connection of a champagne-house at Épernay.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

"Yet it is true that he is far from perfect,—a subtle rascal, who dons disguises, and masquerades as other than he is, a leader of night-birds, and sometimes a turbulent roysterer."

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

He is a reckless roysterer of the old school, and a friend of sir Andrew Ague-cheek.—Shakespeare,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Sir John Lanison of Aylingford seemed to have nothing in common with that young roysterer of long ago, and to-day there was no more popular man in this corner of Hampshire.

From The Brown Mask by Brebner, Percy James

Bed," cried the roysterer; "no bed for me this night!

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John