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A carousal is a noisy drinking party — the night itself, not the verb. People drink a lot, talk loudly, sing, and often go on too long. The word feels old, , even a little theatrical: you meet it in stories about sailors, students in old novels, or a king’s hall, more than in a text message. A modern speaker is more likely to say a binge, a night of heavy drinking, or they partied. Though actually, even in books it is easy to trip on the look-alike carousel, the spinning ride. A carousal does not go round; it just goes on, with glasses emptying. Keep it as a noun: you go to a carousal, or the night turned into a carousal. The doing-word beside it is carouse.
狂歡鬧酒、痛飲作樂（名詞：那場鬧酒）
組成From the verb carouse + -al, a suffix that turns a doing-word into the name of the act. It may also have been pulled, wrongly, toward carousel, the merry-go-round — a mix-up of sound, not a true shared root.
同家族的字
- carousecarousal is carouse with -al stuck on, to name the drinking party itself
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
carousalnoun/kəˈɹaʊz(ə)l/
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The state of carousing; (drunken) revelry; (countable) an instance of this; a noisy social gathering, often with much alcohol consumption.
- —The ſun vvas ſet—they had done their vvork; the nymphs had tied up their hair afreſh—and the ſvvains vvere preparing for a carouſal— […]
- Drawing near, / Loud from the chambers of the bridge below, / Sounds of carousal came and song, / And unveiled women bade the advancing youth / Come merry-make with them.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。