Meaning of Roistering | Babel Free

Definitions

Noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.

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Examples

“[H]e could look on with an eye of kindness at the lookers-on too; at the roystering youth bent upon enjoyment, and here taking it […]”

“Merry Mansions Sunday night, with loud parties in the distance. Matilda said she was going to have a good time at some heaven. And George Smith sat alone staring across the room. And out the window for a bit, at a roistering gathering of folk across the street. A city full of fathers with gathered arms of presents to give and get, this complicated time of year.”

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