tripudiation
English
Etymology
Latin tripudiatio.
Noun
tripudiation (countable and uncountable, plural tripudiations)
- The act of dancing.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- Till champagne and tripudiation do their work; and all lie silent, horizontal; passively slumbering, with meed-of-battle dreams!
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tripudiation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)