Both Uses of
revel
in
Don Quixote
- how many ditties and love-songs did I compose in which my heart declared and made known its feelings, described its ardent longings, revelled in its recollections and dallied with its desires!†
Chpt 1.23-24 *unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
- One was called "The Book of Liveries," in which he described seven hundred and three liveries, with their colours, mottoes, and ciphers, from which gentlemen of the court might pick and choose any they fancied for festivals and revels, without having to go a-begging for them from anyone, or puzzling their brains, as the saying is, to have them appropriate to their objects and purposes; "for," said he, "I give the jealous, the rejected, the forgotten, the absent, what will suit them, and fit them without fail.†
Chpt 2.21-22
Definition:
to take delight in
or:
to party -- especially in a noisy way
or:
to party -- especially in a noisy way