Meaning of Gambol | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
2. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

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Examples

“Heere hung those lipps, that I haue kist I know⟳ not how oft. VVhere be your Iibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that were wont to set⟳ the Table on a Rore?”

“When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak⟳ the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.”

“There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.”

“The season of salad days has been rightly called a season of folly—rightly, because nature wisely intended salad days for folly, and we are wise to regard them as a time for folly. But are we wise when, halting upon the crutches age finds convenient after the gambols of youth have⟳ lost their attractions, we condemn this season of harmless folly to perpetual reprobation?”

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