caroling

1. USgerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of carol

plural carolings

1. A singing of carols.

   1958, Brenda Lee, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Later we'll have some pumpkin pie / And we'll do some caroling.

plural Carolings · alternative Carling · alternative Karling · alternative Karoling

1. A descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian.

   THE FALL OF THE MEROVINGS AND THE RISE OF THE CAROLINGS

   1902, Arthur Hassall, A Handbook of European History 476–1871, page 13

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   The wonderful house of the Carolings, which produced no less than five successive rulers of genius […]

   1878, James Cotter Morison, Gibbon, London, page 163

   The Carolings still spoke German, and had small love for France; […]

   1879, Encyclopædia Britannica, page 535

   It was the first step towards concentrating the attention of Europe on the Carolings as inheritors of the imperial idea; for the idea had never died out, though the emperors themselves were gone.

   1881, G. W. Kitchin, A History of France, Oxford, page 112

   The Capetian king had a limited localised power, a power that in due course could become national; and if he looked back, like the Carolings, to the traditions of imperial monarchy and order, he had no temptation to look back, as the Carolings were bound to look back, to the imperial ideas of universal dominion.

   1903, T. F. Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 918–1273, page 72

   His deposition was followed by one year's reign of Robert I. (see Table 1), and then of Raoul, 923-936, a distant connection of the Carolings.

   1912, C. R. L. Fletcher, The Making of Western Europe, page 320