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roisterer
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Definition:A blustering, turbulent fellow.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---One who roisters; a revellertext from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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If two roisterers met, they cocked their hats in each other faces.
Macaulay.
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Then came the blow of a sword and the heavy fall of a light body of the fair girl sounded, and was followed by a great silence, after which the lights were put out, servants, waiting women, roysterers, and others went in again, Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories.
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But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roysterers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound,
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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And he tried to do sex with a daughter of a yeoman, but she escaped and he chased her across the moor. And his friends, who were daredevil roisterers, chased after him.
Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, p.70 (2003)
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Johnson: [...] There's to be no murder today, gentlemen. (poets grumble) But prepare to Mrs. Miggins' -- I shall join you there later for a roister you will never forget!
BBC. Blackadder, Season 3: Ink and Incapability
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This was a time for roistering and wild-eyed soldiers, crazy with faith, oblivious of death.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.229 (1948)
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