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drolleries
Word definitions for drolleries in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drollery \Droll"er*y\, n.; pl. Drolleries . [F. dr[^o]lerie. See Droll .] The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of ``She Stoops to Conquer.'' -- Macaulay. Something ...
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n. (plural of drollery English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Drolleries (or drollery ), often called a grotesque , are decorative thumbnail images in the margins of Illuminated manuscripts , most popular from about 1250 through the 15th century, though found earlier and later. The most common types of drollery images ...
Usage examples of drolleries.
I will lay a wager that this good fellow who is with him is one Sancho Panza his squire, whose drolleries none can equal.
I too have heard just what thou hast told me of the valour of the one and the drolleries of the other.
As a child Schaine had found these dinners tedious and she could never understand why Muffin was not allowed to dine in the Great Hall where his fancies and drolleries would certainly have enlivened matters.
This afternoon he took from his satchel a book by Artemus Ward and read it for an hour, chuckling now and again at the late humorist’s drolleries and seemingly unaware of the group in the aisle.
Make me laugh not with jokes, not with journalistic wisecracks, but by oddities of phrase, drolleries of perception, wit that underlay her conversation but did not frolic on the surface of it.