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Definition of Rigamarole

1. Noun. A set of confused and meaningless statements.

2. Noun. A long and complicated and confusing procedure. "All that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"

Definition of Rigamarole

1. Noun. (chiefly US) (alternative form of rigmarole) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rigamarole

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rigamarole

rifters riftier riftiest rifting riftless rifts rifty rig rig out rig pig

rig pigs rig up riga fir rigadoon rigadoons rigamarole (current term) rigamaroles rigation rigatoni rigatonis

rigaudon rigaudons rigel rigg riggalds rigged rigger rigger brush riggers

Literary usage of Rigamarole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). (1916)
"Mr. Marshall — I don't know what rigamarole you are referring to, whether it is this bill of Mount Vernon, or something which 1 have not seen, and cannot, ..."

2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"It is what has been called, in words not easy to better, "an unconquerable tendency to rigamarole." It has been admitted that De Quincey's unexpectedness ..."

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