Obs. Also garaus, carous. [a. Ger. gar aus, in gar-aus trinken to drink ‘all out,’ to empty the bowl. Cf. ALL OUT, the English phrase in same sense. In 16th c. F., Rabelais has boire carrous et alluz.] In the phrase To drink, quaff (pledge one) carouse: i.e., to the bottom, to drink a full bumper to his health.
1567. Drant, Horace Ep., i. 18. The tiplinge sottes at midnight which to quaffe carowse do vse.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589), 193. Rather than they wil refuse to drink carouse.
1600. Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood (1874), 43. His hostesse pledg’d him not carouse [rhyme house].
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XXVII. i. Some againe drinking garaus.
1667. E. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. (1676), 40. In our Fathers day the English returning from the service in the Netherlands, brought with them the foul Vice of Drunkenness, as besides other Testimonies, the Term of Carous, from Gar auz, All out.
