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  • noun Plural form of roisterer.

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Examples

  • "Good-night, all!" she called, sweeping the roisterers with a smile.

    CHAPTER 20 2010

  • On the one hand, the shrew; on the other Nick Holder's lumbering, hog-like Christopher Sly, who when set on by roisterers looks like a part of some yet larger grunting monster.

    The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012

  • Garryowen, the stirring march forever associated with Custer's 7th Cavalry, dates from the late eighteenth century, when it was a drinking song of rich young roisterers in Limerick.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Quinn had fallen in with the wild roisterers surrounding the declining John Barrymore.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • The company of roisterers of which Zuchin had been the leader since its formation at the beginning of the term consisted of eight students, among whom, at first, had been numbered Ikonin and

    Youth 2003

  • Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He spent the vacation with his Grandmother Baker in Great Cumberland Place, and he and his brother amused themselves about town with other roisterers, chiefly in gambling.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • It was very quiet — no grog-shops or saloons-of-entertainment in this neighbourhood, thank goodness! — and the hour was still too early for drunken roisterers to come reeling home.

    Australia Felix 2003

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