charivari – French noun declension

French noun forms of charivari

Noun: charivari
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mcharivari
Plural mcharivaris

Sample Sentences

  • Mettez dix personnes d’intelligence suffisante devant un tableau d’aspect neuf et original, et ces personnes, à elles dix, ne feront plus qu’un grand enfant ; elles se pousseront du coude, elles commenteront l’œuvre de la façon la plus comique du monde. Les badauds arriveront à la file, grossissant le groupe ; bientôt ce sera un véritable charivari, un accès de folie bête. (Put ten people of sufficient intelligence in front of a new- and original-looking painting, and those ten people will act like children; they will elbow each other, and comment on the painting in the most ridiculous way imaginable. Passers-by will flock to them and make the group bigger; soon there will be absolute mayhem, a bout of mindless folly.) [1893, Émile Zola, “Le public”, in Édouard Manet, étude biographique et critique, page 365:]

Etymology

Inherited from Old French chalivali (“noise from pots and pans”), from Late Latin caribaria, from carivaria, from Ancient Greek καρηβάρεια (karēbáreia, “headache”, from κάρη (kárē, “head”) + βαρύς (barús, “heavy”)).

Verbs referencing "charivari"

German Nouns Krawall, Catalan Nouns xivarri.

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