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(US, colloquial, dated) Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous..
callithumpian band
callithumpian procession
There was never a tutor's windows to be broken in, or a callithumpian frolic, (which were in vogue in those days,) but Maverick bore a hand in both; […]
He had been entertaining a regular callithumpian parade of Red Cross commissioners from America, and he probably felt that he had seen the worst and that this was just another cross.
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Callithumpian means (US, colloquial, dated) Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous..
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callithumpian band
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