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Definition of Gallivanted
1. gallivant [v] - See also: gallivant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallivanted
Literary usage of Gallivanted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"Annie always " gallivanted " on Friday nights! Arthur was enjoying himself as usual.
So the boy re* mained alone. Mrs. Morel loved her marketing. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Some whistled, others played checkers and still others gallivanted around the
ward and read the temperature charts aloud. ..."
3. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"... given us a little more of his company when he was awake, he would n't have
gallivanted round at night, and we 'd have been thirty miles nearer port. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"Had I gallivanted about in a harlequin's attire, such as is seen constantly on
the persons of the bathers at fashionable watering- places in England, they, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"... in simple naturalness of description, HARRY FRANCO'S account of the metropolitan
dry-goods ' DRUMMER,' who ' gallivanted' him in the most liberal manner ..."
6. The English Review (1852)
"Though my wife has raved and ranted, Though she 's torn my coat in two, When I
lightly gallivanted, When I term'd her jade and shrew,— Still I'll drink, ..."
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