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1. In the Middle Ages, the term Rageman or Ragman referred to a game in which a player randomly selected a string attached to a roll of verses and read the selected verse. The roll was called a Ragman roll .

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2. A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole.

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3. noun an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner. confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk.

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5. rig·ma·role (rĭg′mə-rōl′) also rig·a·ma·role (-ə-mə-rōl′) n. 1. Confused, rambling, or incoherent discourse; nonsense. 2. A complicated, petty set of procedures. [Alteration of obsolete ragman roll, catalog, from Middle English ragmane rolle, scroll used in Ragman, a game of chance: perhaps from Anglo-Norman Ragemon le bon, Ragemon the.

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6. Aug 06,  · Noun rigmarole (countable and uncountable, plural rigmaroles) A long and complicated procedure that seems tiresome or pointless. Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?

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7. rigamarole A whole scenario, an outcome, giving it all, etc. Used to group an outcome or other logical conclusion or grouping into one word. I was going to install a larger engine in my car, but did not want to have to deal with the whole rigamarole. They took that play to broadway, with dancers, signers, and the whole rigamarole.

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8. Apr 13,  · Rigmarole means complicated, bothersome nonsense, so it might seem that, like gobbledygook, kerfuffle, to-do, and blabbityblab, the word’s origin is onomatopoeic or fanciful. But there is .

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