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See also: vivát

vivat

A cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
  The King swears; and now be the welkin split with vivats[.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 338:
  The magistrates were mobbed by vivat-yelling crowds, some 10,000 of whom made their way to the Bastille where they clamoured for Rohan's release.

vivat m ‎(plural vivats)

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