Ariot

//əˈɹaɪət// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Filled with or involving rioting or riotous behaviour. not-comparable, postpositional

    "In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare, Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;"

  2. 2
    Filled in an unrestrained manner. not-comparable, postpositional

    "1896, Octave Thanet (pseudonym of Alice French, “The Captured Dream” in A Book of True Lovers, Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897, p. 262, […] a white fence glittered in front of an old fashioned garden ariot with scarlet salvias and crimson coxcomb."

Example

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"In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare, Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;"

Etymology

From a- (“on, in”) + riot.

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