garboil

plural garboils

1. archaiccountableuncountableDisorder; uproar.

   With greate vproares & garboile shal there bee arisinges of nacion against nacion & royalme against royalme.

   1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurch, Luke 21, page clxv

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   She’s dead, my queen: Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read The garboils she awaked; at the last, best: See when and where she died.

   c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]

   M. d’Espagne could not forgive the Earl the death of his friend Sir Simon Burley: that was what began the garboil!

   1975, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in My Lord John, New York: Dutton, page 25