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Roysterer   Listen
noun
Roysterer, Royster  n.  Same as Roister, Roisterer.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Roysterer" Quotes from Famous Books



... still about me. Save for a belated roysterer singing on his way homeward, and one or two nightbirds on the street below whose footfalls sounded fitfully, no whisper broke on the ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease

... scaled the cemetery wall and took his way homeward he did not go directly to the dormer-windowed cottage where the erect gentleman and the pretty lady awaited him. Just as he was approaching it he heard Elmira Royster's guitar in the porch opposite, and he crossed the street ...
— The Dreamer - A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe • Mary Newton Stanard

... to say that this play marks the beginning of modern English drama. Nicholas Udall, head master of Eton College, being accustomed to write Latin plays for his boys, concluded to try his hand at an English drama. The result was Ralph Royster Doyster, the first comedy. In 1562 Queen Elizabeth was entertained by the presentation of the first English tragedy, a play ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester



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