revery

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rev•er•ie

(ˈrɛv ə ri)

n.

1. a state of meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.

2. a daydream.

3. a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea.

[1325–75; < Old French reverie, derivative of rever to speak wildly]

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Noun	1.	revery - an abstracted state of absorption reverie abstractedness, abstraction - preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else dream - a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream" brown study - a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness
	2.	revery - absentminded dreaming while awake air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie dreaming, dream - imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"

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rêverie

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This melancholy revery was absorbing him more and more, when a song, quaint but full of sweetness, suddenly tore him from it.

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He seated himself on the edge of that terrible bed, and fell into melancholy and gloomy revery.

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This idea, having once seized upon my fancy, greatly excited it, and I lost myself forthwith in revery. "If ever island were enchanted," said I to myself, "this is it.

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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

Quotes To Commemorate Emily Dickinson's Death Anniversary

The first of these is Revery, a Russian Imperial Stout, now available in kegs and 22 oz.