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Carouse   /kərˈaʊz/   Listen
noun
Carouse  n.  
1.
A large draught of liquor. (Obs.) "A full carouse of sack." "Drink carouses to the next day's fate."
2.
A drinking match; a carousal. "The early feast and late carouse."


verb
Carouse  v. t.  To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. (Archaic) "Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape." "Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love."


Carouse  v. i.  (past & past part. caroused; pres. part. carousing)  To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. "He had been aboard, carousing to his mates."





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"Carouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... that preceded the celebration of Herod's birthday were probably filled with merry-making and carouse. Groups of nobles, knights, and ladies, would gather on the terraces, looking out over the Dead Sea, and away to Jerusalem, and in the far distance to the gleaming waters of the Mediterranean. Picnics and excursions would be arranged into the neighbouring country. ...
— John the Baptist • F. B. Meyer
... forth with a few chosen comrades on a midnight ramble to other haunts of pleasure in the capital—the lower the better. Such was the way in which Philippe of Orleans, Regent of France, spent his nights. A few hours after the carouse had ended he would resume his sceptre, as austere and dignified a ruler as you would ...
— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall
... said the magnanimous Michael—"intelligencers? pshaw! I serve the noble Earl of Leicester.—Here comes the wine.—Fill round, Master Skinker, a carouse to the health of the flower of England, the noble Earl of Leicester! I say, the noble Earl of Leicester! He that does me not reason is a swine of Sussex, and I'll make him kneel to the pledge, if I should cut his hams and smoke them ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... lolling outside an inn, unable to talk properly or to stand upright. The Prior's warning against the Devil had been speedily justified. Peter had been tempted to spend his last day of freedom in a carouse, and every penny he possessed had gone over a fine dinner ...
— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen
... broke his fast on a bottle of port wine, consumed a bottle of Rhine wine at lunch, of Burgundy at dinner, and finished off the evening with one or two more bottles of port. Then he heard, too, how, in the course of a night's carouse, Holm had lost the manuscript of a book; and in these traits he saw the outline of the figure of ...
— Hedda Gabler - Play In Four Acts • Henrik Ibsen


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