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Bast vs Revel - What's the difference?

bast | revel |

As a noun revel is

an instance of merrymaking; a celebration or revel can be (architecture).

As a verb revel is

to make merry; to have a gay, lively time or revel can be (obsolete) to draw back; to retract.

bast

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
  • * 1919, (Ronald Firbank), (Valmouth) , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
    • I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast .
  • * 1997 : ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 145
    • He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    revel

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • Our revels now are ended.
  • *
  • *:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels ? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
    • Derived terms
    * revelry

    Verb

  • To make merry; to have a gay, lively time.
  • * 1997 , The Art of Practicing, a Guide to Making Music from the Heart
    • Slowing down doesn't have to feel like holding back. It can be an opportunity to revel in sounds and sensations, to not be so concerned about where we are going but to enjoy the moment and become comfortable where we are.
    Synonyms
    * (make merry) carouse, celebrate
    Derived terms
    * reveller/reveler

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) revellere; .

    Verb

    (revell)
  • (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.
    • (Harvey)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture)

    • Anagrams

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