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Definition of Drinking song
1. Noun. A song celebrating the joys of drinking; sung at drinking parties.
Definition of Drinking song
1. Noun. a song which celebrates or accompanies drinking ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drinking Song
Literary usage of Drinking song
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the by Louis Charles Elson (1901)
"Probably the oldest English drinking-song of any literary merit is to be found
in " A ... The drinking-song, which was the prototype of many that followed, ..."
2. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"drinking song. Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen, Here 's to the widow of
fifty; Here's to the flaunting extravagant quean, ..."
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