ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RIGMAROLE
From earlier ragman roll a list, probably a roll used in a medieval game, wherein various characters were described in verse, beginning with Ragemon le bon Ragman the good.
2 QUOTES WITH «RIGMAROLE»
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rigmarole.
This is fundamentally true of the media business, the rigmarole you go through while trying to make 25 movies while not seeing your kids.
I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIGMAROLE»
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rigmarole in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rigmarole and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rigmarole and Other Plays
Rigmarole Has Everyone&Mdash;The Cm And His Cabinet, Socialites, Advertising Biggies, Media Moguls, The Underworld, And Even The Dabbawallahs Of Mumbai&Mdash;Trying To Impress Princess Lizzinia Of Batuslavakia, Who Comes To India On A State ...
Reeling I sat back in the chair and closed my eyes as I tried to make sense of the nonsense; the power of the blow was devastating: my life had imploded, my world was crumbling around me.
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The Old Doctor's
Rigmarole: Memoirs of a Civil War Surgeon
Memoirs of a Civil War Surgeon Edward Stuart Gordon. Prefilce Chestnut Grove,
located near Charlottesville, Virginia, on the old lvy Turnpike, was the home of my
grandfather, Dr. John Churchill Gor— don, who was widely known as “The Old ...
Edward Stuart Gordon, 2007
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Common Phrases: And Where They Come From
[5] rigmarole While the first idiom listed below could have been included earlier in
the book, it seemed fitting to include it in this chapter on politics. Much of what
constituted ancient politics was the act of killing one leader and replacing him
with ...
Myron Korach, John Mordock
Ben, a 300 level student of Lagos State University (LASU), felt that his girlfriend, Rebecca, had cheated on him when she failed to show up on a date as they had planned.
Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this ...
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The Romantic
Rigmarole of a Time Out of Town
This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Charles James, Thomas Clement, Charlesthomas Clement James, 2011
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Word Origins...And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
Most people I polled prefer rigamarole to rigmarole (some of them profess
English). The rhythmically perfect word rigamarole has thus undergone two
extensions since the beginning of the eighteenth century (the earliest citation of
rigmarole in ...
Just. Rituals. Why. the. Rigmarole. of. Fourth-Century. Athenian. Lawcourts?
VICTOR BERS This paper is offered to Mogens Hansen as a token of my esteem
for his immense contributions to the study of Greek poleis in general and
Athenian ...
Pernille Flensted-Jensen, Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, 2000
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Conflict and Tension in Tribal Society
ADMINISTRATIVE. RIGMAROLE. AS. A. SOURCE. OF. CONFLICT.
ADMINISTRATION IS one of the factors which could be responsible for conflicting
situations in the tribal areas of Bihar because the pattern of technological
progress of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIGMAROLE»
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rigmarole is used in the context of the following news items.
The Big Idea: why the airport security rigmarole is off the planet
The BIG idea. Laura Poitras is suing the US government. The creator of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Academy Award-winning documentary Citizenfour, about the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Peer-to-peer lending the more likely path for 'Fintech' entrants in NZ …
Peer-to-peer lending the more likely path for 'Fintech' entrants in NZ than the rigmarole of a banking licence. Posted in Business June 29, 2015 - 02:47pm, ... «Interest.co.nz, Jun 15»
Apple Watch cost revealed – and it's a big profit maker for Cupertino
The Apple Watch is following the usual tech gadget post-launch rigmarole, and following the teardowns of the device, we now have news on how much the ... «ITProPortal, May 15»
Vietnam premier angered by year-long rigmarole of selecting investors
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung finds it unacceptable for state agencies to take as long as almost two years to select investors for infrastructure ... «Tuoitrenews, Apr 15»
OPINION: Legalese of the Ulmarra mural
PUTTING Paul Howitt through the legal rigmarole is a necessary process the Clarence Valley Council must fulfil. If the council do not act, some cultural cretin in ... «Clarence Valley Daily Examiner, Apr 15»
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Case in point is the rigmarole about allowing grocery stores to sell beer and eventually wine. I don't know about you, but I can buy wine in most of Barrie's ... «The Barrie Examiner, Apr 15»
Fuming patients blast Dover doctor's surgery over 'ridiculous …
ANGRY: Angela Ward has blasted the 'ridiculous' rigmarole at Peter Street surgery. Photo: Phil Medgett. VIEW GALLERY. Fuming patients blast Dover doctor's ... «Dover Express, Jan 15»
Admission rigmarole for HRD minister Smriti Irani to get kids in school
New Delhi: It did not help that she was India's Education Minister--Smriti Irani had to appear in an interview to get her children admitted to a school here like any ... «Zee News, Nov 14»
Rigmarole for a driving licence renewal
It was the D-month for my driving licence renewal. I had heard rumours that this was a breeze of a process, with an online portal and new technology in place. «The Hindu, Jul 14»
Fishing in the “roiling” waters of etymology
Those interested in the origin of Engl. rogue and ragman (as in ragman's roll, the etymon of rigmarole, the latter being pronounced by everybody I know as ... «OUPblog, Jun 14»
