Meaning

Carried out with no preparation..

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1. Carried out with no preparation.
2. 1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15:
3. 1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15: Sheets, tablecloths, white gowns, and pocket-handkerchiefs were instantly in demand, and every one, as has been seen, entered, con amore, into the extempore entertainment of Pandemonic Revels.
4. Without preparation; extemporaneously.
5. Something improvised.

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• more extempore
• most extempore
• ex tempore
• extempores

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