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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CAROUSAL, n. s as z. [See Carouse.] A feast or festival.
But in America it signifies a noisy drinking bout, or reveling.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1760 carouse 2

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Carousal Ca*rous"al, n. [See Carouse, but also cf. F. carrousel tilt.] A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. --Sterne. Syn: Banquet; revel; orgie; carouse. See Feast.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Feast, festival, entertainment, jovial banquet, merry-making, regale. 2. Revelling, revelry, revel, bacchanals, saturnalia, debauch, compotation, wassail, orgies, carouse, cups, drinking-bout, spree (colloq.), jollification (colloq.).

Moby Thesaurus

bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, binge, booze, bout, brannigan, bust, carouse, celebration, compotation, debauch, debauchery, debauchment, dissipation, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fling, free living, guzzle, high living, jag, killing pace, lark, licentiousness, orgy, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, randan, randy, revel, riotous living, saturnalia, spree, symposium, tear, toot, wassail, wingding