roysterer

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Thomas Morton of Mare-Mount, that amusing old debauchee and roysterer, was sentenced to be “clapt into the bilbowes.”

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Our boy is not a gambler or roysterer, nor do I think he has ever been in Europe.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces out West by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

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

You are a roysterer, a jovial companion; you mean no harm - you are nobody's enemy but your own.

From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by Henley, William Ernest

As soon as this roysterer was fairly out of the way the adventurers looked about them to get their bearings.

From Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Hodgson, Edward S.