All 4 Uses of
revel
in
The Masque of the Red Death
- But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel.†
- And the revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock.
*revel = party
- But now there were twelve strokes to be sounded by the bell of the clock; and thus it happened, perhaps, that more of thought crept, with more of time, into the meditations of the thoughtful among those who revelled.†
- And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.†
Definition:
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(revel) to take delight in
or:
to party -- especially in a noisy way