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  • noun A festival of singers; a German singing festival.

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Examples

  • This saengerfest was greeted with vociferous cheers from the vastly amused youths in the stands, who hailed the grinning Hicks with jeers, cat-calls, whistles, and humorous (so they believed) remarks:

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • Hicks, however, despite his saengerfest, was completely lost in the enthralling narrative, so that he seemed to hear the parrot shrieking,

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • It was actually the first Caruso-like outburst of the pestersome youth that year, but his saengerfest brought vociferous howls of protest from campus and dormitories:

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • Big Butch Brewster, referring to his watch, bellowed through the megaphone that it was nearly eight o'clock, and loudly suggested that they forcibly terminate Hicks 'saengerfest, and spare the town police force a riot call to the campus, by transporting the pestiferous youth to the Auditorium, for his "surprise party."

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • Popular and beloved as he was, the gladsome youth hesitated to shatter the quietude of the campus with his saengerfest, knowing as he did what a terrible blow Thor's utterly astounding announcement had been to the college.

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • The band concert lasted until ten-thirty, then the three Germans who were trying to drink all the beer on board gave a nightly saengerfest that lasted until one o'clock, and then the men who wash down the decks appeared at four.

    In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909

  • "I haven't twanged my ole banjo and held forth with a saengerfest for a coon's age!

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • It was ten-thirty of the morning whose dawn T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., had blithesomely hailed with an impromptu musicale and saengerfest on "Lookout

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • "Seriously, Hicks," spoke Butch, "your saengerfest came at a lamentably inopportune time!

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • "It's a strange paradox," boomed Butch Brewster, finding that no Hicks appeared at the window, "but for three years Bannister has stormed at Hicks for bothering us during study-hour, or at midnight, with his saengerfest, and now I'd give anything to see him up there, and to hear that banjo, and his songs!

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

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