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Definition of Merrymakers
1. merrymaker [n] - See also: merrymaker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Merrymakers
Literary usage of Merrymakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Winston Readers by Sidney Grant Firman, Ethel Maltby Gehres (1918)
"THE SOLDIERS AND THE merrymakers Then they went on a little further, and soon
heard the sound of a fife and drum. ..."
2. The Winston Readers by Sidney Grant Firman, Ethel Maltby Gehres (1918)
"THE SOLDIERS AND THE merrymakers Then they went on a little further, and soon
heard the sound of a fife and drum. ..."
3. Famous Leaders of Industry: The Life Stories of Boys who Have Succeeded by Edwin Wildman, Trentwell Mason White, Harry Irving Shumway (1920)
"$1.65 THE merrymakers IN NEW YORK " The book is bright and clever and gives an
excellent picture of our great metropolis. One can in his imagination see New ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... and merrymakers.—Schm. Swiss gammel, merrymaking, noisy enjoyment ; gammeln,
... merrymakers. The Swiss and Bav. forms are obviously identical with E. ..."
5. Beyond the dreams of avarice: A Novel by Walter Besant (1895)
"Joyousness, with troops of topers, girls, and merrymakers, and men in possession
looking on with a grin." "I would I had known your sainted ancestors, ..."
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