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roister

[roi-ster] / ˈrɔɪ stər /


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Few of the thousands of bedaubed revelers who annually roister through Manhattan's Beaux-Arts Ball realize that their patronage indirectly helps to raise money to send one architectural student to Paris for two-and-a-half years.

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In the old days, Batista liked to roister long past midnight with ex-sergeant cronies.

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Thus a problem has been set before doting Princess Victoria�where shall her Zubkov now roister, tweak, and make champagne-rain?

From Time Magazine Archive

Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prosp�re.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bailey, unless, indeed, by dividing the word into two portions, viz. "bar" and "rister," and then, with a little of the critic's license, assuming that the latter half might originally have been written "roister."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various




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