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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 891 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHARIVARI , a See also:

French See also:

TERM

term of uncertain origin, but probably onomatopoeic, for a See also:

MOCK

mock See also:

SERENADE (from Ital. serenata, Lat. serenus, bright; the Italian term being applied, partly by confusion with serus, late, and partly through the use of Serena—cf. Gr. ve?i7vri—as an epithet for the moon, to a form of courting music played at night in the

serenade " rough See also:

MUSIC

music," made by beating on kettles, See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-irons, See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea-trays or what not. The charivari was anciently in See also:

France a See also:

REGULAR

regular See also:

WEDDING

wedding See also:

CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom, all bridal couples being thus serenaded. Later it was reserved for See also:

ILL

ill-assorted and unpopular marriages, for widows or widowers who remarried too soon, and generally as a mockery for all who were unpopular. At the beginning of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, wedding charivaris were forbidden by the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council of See also:

TOURS

Tours under See also:

pain of See also:

EXCOMMUNICATION (Lat. ex, out of, away from; communis, common)

excommunication, but the custom still lingers in rural districts.

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