revelry

From Middle English revelrye; equivalent to revel +‎ -ry.

• enPR: rĕvʹ-əl-ri, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvəlɹi/
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): [ˈɹɛv.əɫ.ɹi]
• Rhymes: -ɛvəlɹi

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revelry (countable and uncountable, plural revelries)

1. Joyful or riotous merry-making.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)

     The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.

   • 2007, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:

     [During a wedding] As evening drew in and moths began to swoop under the canopy, now lit with floating golden lanterns, the revelry became more and more uncontained.

• celebration, festivity, revelment

• revelrous