rigmarolling

Updated: June 12, 2025

From the beginning his coursers were paired, and with equal pace they have constantly held the road. This earliest one has perhaps more of the cardinal's preliminary scarlet than of the mature papal white, but in its first note the voice of the Autocrat is unmistakable: "Somebody was rigmarolling the other day about the artificial distinctions of society.

George William Curtis - Literary and Social Essays