Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of dancing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of dancing.
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- noun The act of
dancing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And observe also, that of the three types of lout, whose combined chorus and tripudiation leads the present British Constitution its devil's dance, this last and smoothest type is also the dullest.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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Breathless messengers, fugitive Swiss, denunciatory Patriots, trepidation; finally tripudiation!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Cockades, handed them from fair fingers; by waving of swords, drawn to pledge the Queen's health; by trampling of National Cockades; by scaling the Boxes, whence intrusive murmurs may come; by vociferation, tripudiation, sound, fury and distraction, within doors and without, -- testify what tempest-tost state of vacuity they are in?
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Till champagne and tripudiation do their work; and all lie silent, horizontal; passively slumbering, with meed-of-battle dreams!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
qms commented on the word tripudiation
At meetings of Lexical Nation
A collation precedes some potation.
There's never a chance
They simply will "dance;"
The evening must end in tripudiation.
July 7, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word tripudiation
Tripudist, one given to "tripudiating."
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1919
January 19, 2018