Definition of "revelries" [revelries]

• Plural form of revelry. (noun)

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• "Morton was sent back to England, and the "revelries" which he had countenanced or promoted were seen no more in Massachusetts."
• "It began on the decks of ships that brought the first slaves to the New World, where European crewmen gleefully joined the dances of their African hostages, and it continued on the plantations in the southern colonies, where masters and overseers were known to partake in the revelries in the slave quarters."
• "The revelries surrounding my coronation will have to go on without me."