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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[See

, but also cf. F.

carrousel

tilt.]

A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.

Syn. – Banquet; revel; orgie; carouse. See

Noun.

s as z. [See Carouse.] A feast or festival.

But in America it signifies a noisy drinking bout, or reveling.