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
Next year's centennial shivaree will symbolize this pride.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Teamsters convention in Miami Beach last week began like a summer shivaree.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, without any more preliminaries, she turned on all the horrors of the "Battle of Prague," that venerable shivaree, and waded chin-deep in the blood of the slain.
From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 by Mark Twain
