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wassail
/ˈwɑseɪl/
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What does wassail mean?
noun
- A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion.
- The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc.
- Revelry.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A festive or drinking song or glee.
verb
- To toast, to drink to the health of another.
- To drink wassail.
- To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈwɑseɪl/
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The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels; And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.
“And I,” said the Templar, filling his goblet, “drink wassail to the fair Rowena; for since her namesake introduced the word into England, has never been one more worthy of such a tribute. By my faith, I could pardon the unhappy Vortigern, had he half the cause that we now witness, for making shipwreck of his honour and his kingdom.”