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- noun Plural form of
reveller .
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Examples
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And now the shrill blast of the trumpet called the revellers to tea.
True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson
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• The revellers are a picture of joy as they celebrate Chinese New Year, as in Bury St Edmunds.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Hugh Muir 2010
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It will not apply to anyone who wants to travel outbound from the city centre, such as revellers returning home after a night out.
Express & Star 2009
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One is a stationary table top version, which joins pairs or groups of revellers.
‘Speech Bubble’ Helmets to Combat Bar Noise | Impact Lab 2010
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Hundreds of revellers set up an elaborate street party on Wilton Way, and oohed and ahhed around television sets with barely less visible enthusiasm than the crowds surrounding Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace.
Street Parties Celebrate, Disparage Nuptials Dana Cimilluca 2011
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Some of the audience had come dressed as ring-masters or lions, and no one could get in once the venue had been blocked off to control New Year revellers.
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As midnight neared, she wandered the square in a stunned daze, unnoticed by revellers and clutching the body of her deceased child – until, alerted by the sound of Kat's baby crying from an open window, she snuck into the Queen Vic and swapped the two infants, in a scene that looked more like a Tramadol Nights sketch than the heartbreaking drama it was presumably intended to be.
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The Royal Mile takes you back in time and really gets you into the spirit of the occasion, as pagans, performers and revellers wave off summer with fire and acrobatics.
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Naked Apes, made by David Aukin's Daybreak Pictures, is set in Leeds and explores the world of three blokeish paramedics in the ambulance service as they ferry alcoholics and revellers to a hospital's accident and emergency department.
Channel 4 orders two new comedy drama series Maggie Brown 2010
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Like so many other revellers, I have golden memories of the fair, of battling against the tide of people down Walton Street.
Country diary: East Yorkshire Rosemary Roach 2010
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