charivari
Glossary term
/ʃɑːɹɪˈvɑːɹi/
Also appears as: Charivari
Rough music, mock procession or public shaming. Medusa’s preferred civic technology for converting grievance into theatre.
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Who uses the word
- Bianca Columbina targeted by (1 passage)
- Medusa organised by (2 passages)
- Solomon organised by (1 passage)
- St Just organised by (1 passage)
Incidents
- The charivari has instance (1 passage)
From the books (5 passages)
…gorgon scratching her dreadlocks, “that there be a great deal as might be zed vor getting hup a charivari. Hand never mind ’ow oy knew,” she added with an affronting portentousness, “hus hanarchits ’as har ways hov knowing things.”
…by their comble of the mynah bird, wrapped up as they were in their latest intrigue, viz. the charivari which they thought they might get up.
…It is to be preceded by what low types call a charivari. The appetiser for the main course, if you will.”
…to be within doors upon that fateful night when the scum of St Pauls and Montypee implemented the charivari which they had been devising. Mr Ian Corby had just reached the termination of a lengthy address to his lady wife regarding certain issues which had arisen between them regarding domestic economy, amongst which the hygienic matters alluded to above most certainly had figured quite prominently. To his regret, Mrs Bianca…
“Bianca saw the charivari too,” said the Mayor, overlooking the insult, “They bracht it doon tae Southville. She threw a fit. Ah wiz put to the necessity o’ placin’ her in the care of the guid folk at Perrrky Pets.”