Definition of Drolleries. Meaning of Drolleries. Synonyms of Drolleries

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Definition of Drolleries

Drolleries
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 Drolleries from wikipedia

- has so many it has become known as The Book of Drolleries. Another m****cript that contains many drolleries is the English Luttrell Psalter, which has hybrid...
- may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations. Biblical m****cripts have notes in the margin, for...
- of these decretals is known for its marginal illustrations which are drolleries unrelated to the texts but instead picture other fables, fancies and stories...
- Page from the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter, showing drolleries on the right margin and a ploughman at the bottom...
- expressions, in a direct continuation of the medieval traditions of the drolleries in the border decorations or initials in illuminated m****cripts. From...
- drummer, in the house of Mr. John Mompesson, with some reflections on drollery and atheisme Glanvill, Joseph. "Essay IV Against modern Sadducism in the...
- very elaborate decorated borders of foliate patterns, often with small drolleries. A Gothic page might contain several areas and types of decoration: a...
- Europe. Independent scenes were often executed as historiated initials and drolleries at the lower edge of the picture. These scenes offered space for imaginative...
- Kissell of The New York Daily News remarked that he delivered "all the drollery with a perfect deadpan and a twinkle" while David Patrick Stearns of USA...
- Parisian Gothic-era m****cript illuminator who excelled in the invention of drolleries as well as traditional iconography. He is considered one of the best miniaturists...