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- noun Plural form of
cavorting .
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Examples
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Uncle Abel called his cavortings when feeling exceptionally fit from his unaccustomed diet of oats and feed.
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It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet.
Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed John Fordham 2010
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David Bohm, and Jean-Pierre Vigier to hypothesise the existence of an unobserved deterministic substructure underpinning the apparently indeterministic cavortings of objects on the quantum-mechanical level.
Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009
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The monarchy is a little different from the cavortings of Duchess Fergie with assorted Texans.
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It is taken to mean black magic, or the cavortings of depraved charlatans—or both.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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It is taken to mean black magic, or the cavortings of depraved charlatans—or both.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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We asked some stragglers about it, and they said everybody went to the show looking very innocent; and laid low and kept dark till the poor old king was in the middle of his cavortings on the stage; then somebody give a signal, and the house rose up and went for them.
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Hermanus east of here is a prime vantage point to watch the whales at their cavortings.
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"Take your position instantly" - and now he pointed to where Bericus, Bwlch, Bedwyr, and Drustanus were trying to control the cavortings of their Libyan stallions.
Black Horses For The King McCaffrey, Anne 1996
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Brian asked, grinning as he swayed easily with Cloudy's excited cavortings.
Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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