Definition of Drollery. Meaning of Drollery. Synonyms of Drollery

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Definition of Drollery

Drollery
Drollery Droll"er*y, n.; pl. Drolleries. [F. dr[^o]lerie. See Droll.] 1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of ``She Stoops to Conquer.' -- Macaulay. 2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: (a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] --Shak. (b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.] I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. -- Evelyn.

Meaning of Drollery from wikipedia

- 15th century, though found earlier and later. The most common types of drollery images appear as mixed creatures, either between different animals, or...
- may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations. Biblical m****cripts have notes in the margin, for...
- serial form in 1900. The work has been called "a graceful and ****y bit of drollery". Lang 1947, p. 495. Lang, Bluma Renée (1947). "Louÿs, Pierre". In Smith...
- Page from the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter, showing drolleries on the right margin and a ploughman at the bottom...
- Three verses of a variant of "Hark Hark", from the Westminster Drollery (1672)...
- collaboration as follows: ****van has never had an equal for brightness and drollery, for humour without co****ness and without vulgarity, and for charm and...
- relatively small amount of space or effort to be devoted to such scenes. Drolleries in the margins of medieval illuminated m****cripts sometimes contain small...
- drummer, in the house of Mr. John Mompesson, with some reflections on drollery and atheisme Glanvill, Joseph. "Essay IV Against modern Sadducism in the...
- and usually edits the films himself, and thus introduces his personal "drollery and deadpan" style. The camera is usually still. Events are shown in a...
- closer attention to the words [but] there are great stores of wit and drollery ... which will well repay exploration. ... The music is fresh, bright,...