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Charivari
Charivari meaning
The noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion. | Any loud, cacophonous noise or hubbub.
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Example sentences (3)
The essence of traditions such as the charivari and the ‘culture of retribution’ can be found in today’s protests, often in more symbolic forms.
An old-time charivari is being worked out by the Nielson sympathizers, to take place soon after the announcement to the press, and the student-body, of which Mr. Nielson is president, of his new ties.
Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), he gave the artists the name by which they became known.