The charivari is a custom that the Canadians got from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

The charivari is a custom that the Canadians got from the French, in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

It is related to other means of social control that arise in communities, such as charivari, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Dan was full of a wild idea that we should all meet them at the gate, armed with cowbells and tin-pans, and "charivari" them up the lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Road] Reference

'charivari' under the windows on the wedding-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

Un charivari pour chavirer ce parti, comme en Argentine, en Bolivie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

Moira made enough noise to split the asteroid open, but the scientific charivari was louder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger! Tiger!]

I have even heard talk of getting up a ‘charivari’ under the windows on the wedding-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

References: le charivari (m) = hullabaloo; Anu Garg = author, wordsmith; la grand-mère (f) = grandmother.    From Wordnik.com.  [libérer - French Word-A-Day] Reference

But I can tell you that a charivari is not always a joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

In the midst of this charivari the door opened softly, but as if with.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

A few days after the charivari affair, Mrs. D--- stepped in to see me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

A few days after the charivari affair, Mrs. D — stepped in to see me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

BrE shəràd, AmE shərâde chargé d'affaires shàrzhâydá-fãir charivari.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

W'en we have say we going make le charivari, do you want that we hall tell a lie?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Creole Days] Reference

Try to let us know the day as we have resolved to give you a serenade (or charivari).    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

A man was killed up at W--- the other day, and two others dangerously wounded, at a charivari.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

A man was killed up at W — the other day, and two others dangerously wounded, at a charivari.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

Some of the charivari party had to fly, or they might have ended their days in the penitentiary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

The charivari is to drive any of the spirits who might be away from their shelters back into them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

She resigned from the post-office to marry him, and San Pasqual took a night off to give her a charivari.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Chance] Reference

Along with Robert Nerantzoulis, as the Jester, he leads the opening charivari-type number, Enter the Circus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stage / News Headlines] Reference

From that hour the charivari ceased, and the old lady was left to enjoy the society of her young husband in quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

Then if we could catch him in the act and drum him up with a good charivari, the bishop would be obliged to send him elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons of the Soil] Reference

Ventivegni from over the way said to me: 'Miss Effi, what will you bet we shall not have a charivari and a wedding here this year yet?'".    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

"He was delighted with my charivari, and then he said to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference