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Word: skimmelton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...custom of noisily serenading a couple on their wedding night is called a shivaree (from the French charivari) in the Mississippi Valley, belling in Western Pennsylvania, skimmelton in the Hudson Valley, horning in Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Isoglosses | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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