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Skimmington
Skimmington Skim"ming*ton, n. [Etymol. uncertain. Perhaps the name of some notorius scold.] A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.

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- /ʃəˌrɪvəˈriː/, alternatively spelled shivaree or chivaree and also called a skimmington) was a European and North American folk custom designed to shame a member...
- M**** or in the market place on market day or informal action such as a Skimmington ride. They were usually of local manufacture with no standard design...
- the male and female inhabitants of Broughton comes to a head with a Skimmington Ride event. When elderly Ms. Danvers is poisoned shortly before the event...
- publicly shame Henchard and Lucetta, creating effigies of them in a skimmington ride. Lucetta is so devastated by the spectacle that she collapses, has...
- tools of unofficial mob justice. In folk customs such as the English skimmington rides and rough music (and their continental equivalents, such as the...
- serenading. It is alternatively spelled shivaree or chivaree and also called skimmington (ride). Charivari also may refer to: Charivari (decorative chain), accompaniment...
- approach of a riotous and noisy skimmington or charivari, which Hudibras mistakes for some pagan ritual. The skimmington procession pelts Hudibras and Ralpho...
- and Banstead, Tandridge RH2 REIGATE Reigate, Woodhatch, South Park, Skimmington, Leigh, Dawes Green, Bunce Common, S****wood Cross, Nalderswood, Sidlow...
- and compensation were frequent. The disafforestations caused riots and Skimmington processions resulting in the destruction of enclosures and reoccupation...
- through public rituals, such as "rough music", the cucking stool and the skimmington ride. In Thomas Harman's Caveat for Common Cursitors 1566 a 'walking...