Definition of "drinking-bout" []

• A period of drinking, especially one involving intensive alcohol consumption. (noun)

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• "Southern Persia food is hastily cooked at such times, wine strained, Kaliuns made ready and horses saddled for a ride to the nearest gardens and a happy drinking-bout under the cypresses."
• "We have given you out to be the most undaunted champion who ever wrestled in a drinking-bout at close quarters with the monster called Carousal, whom all bold spirits wish to try a fall with; we have gone so far as to say that you have never yet been worsted."
• "One day at a drinking-bout this monster had the youth seized and mutilated, and why?"