Rigmarole vs Kyrielle - What's the difference?
rigmarole | kyrielle |
Complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion.
Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.
* De Quincey
A long rigmarole.
A form of French verse written in rhyming couplets or quatrains, sometimes with a religious theme.
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As nouns the difference between rigmarole and kyrielle
is that rigmarole is complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion while kyrielle is a long rigmarole.rigmarole
English
Alternative forms
* rigamaroleNoun
- Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
- 1895' — ''In comes Mitaiele to Lloyd, and told some '''rigmarole about Paatalise (the steward's name) wanting to go and see his family in the bush.'' — , ch XIX
- Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole .