Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Riot; the practice of rioting; riotousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of rioting; riot.
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- noun The act or practice of
rioting .
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Examples
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/I hope your electioneering riotry (394) has not, nor will mix in these tumults.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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In the instance of the buffalo dance of the Tesuque Indians, contrary to what might be expected or would popularly be conceived, there is not riotry of color, but the costumes are toned rather in the sombre hues of the animal in question, and after the tone of the dark flanks of the mountains crested and avalanched with snows, looking more like buffaloes buried knee deep in white drifts than anything else one may think of.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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