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  • noun Plural form of carousal.

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Examples

  • Spread over an area of about 20,000 sq. mtrs, the building has central heating and air conditioning, besides flight information display system, CCTV for surveillance, checking counters, baggage carousals, public address system, departure conveyor system and capacity to handle 500 domestic and 450 international passengers.

    Kashmir Airport goes international, Sonia flags also off train to Baramulla, 2009

  • I looked for a splendid reception, tournaments, carousals, pageants, and festivals; instead of which, all has been seclusion and obscurity! and the best society whom the King introduced to us, was a

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • The nuptials were prepared with surprising pomp and magnificence; the ceremony was attended with feasts, carousals, and burlettas: all Italy composed sonnets in my praise, though not one of them was tolerable.

    Candide 2007

  • I imagine, I said, at the next step in his progress, that there will be feasts and carousals and revellings and courtesans, and all that sort of thing; Love is the lord of the house within him, and orders all the concerns of his soul.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Chevalier, who had directed him to confide in the guard of the prison, from whom he had already received some instances of kindness, and who had promised to permit his going into the castle for half an hour, on the ensuing night, when Montoni and his companions should be engaged at their carousals.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • This constitutes betrothal, and the marriage, which immediately follows, is celebrated by carousals and the drinking of much sake.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • She distinguished, till a late hour, the distant carousals of

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • In this interval, he communicated to Emily terrific reports of what was passing in the castle; of riots, quarrels, and of carousals more alarming than either; while from some circumstances, which he mentioned, she not only doubted, whether

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • From reading he passed to sleeping, from sleeping to gossip in drawing rooms of the Club, from gossip to carousals and women; from carousals back to gossip, reading, and wine.

    War and Peace 2003

  • Pierre received him unwillingly at first, but got used to him after a while, sometimes even accompanied him on his carousals, and gave him money under the guise of loans.

    War and Peace 2003

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