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Charivari (Chariva`ri) , a satirical journal, such as the English Punch; originally a discordant mock serenade.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Charivari in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable