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drollery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | waggery |
| Type of | jest, jocularity, joke |
Examples of drollery
drollery
He understands that we're mostly there for the drollery and the decolletage.
From the time.com
This provides Burgess with the opportunity to show a bit of his genius for drollery.
From the time.com
I am on the lookout for moments of drollery, of absurdity, and also of great beauty.
From the stltoday.com
Like so much of the book, it walks an exquisite like between drollery and sheer evil.
From the sacbee.com
The drollery earned them a scolding from Anna Bligh, premier of Queensland.
From the time.com
The scholarship is impeccable, but there is a donnish drollery in many of the articles.
From the online.wsj.com
The drollery may have seemed a trifle fey, but there was a point to it.
From the time.com
We've come to expect drollery and eccentricity from Joel and Ethan Coen.
From the charlotteobserver.com
This week will be a busy one for that specialist in death-preoccupied drollery David Shrigley.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A comic incident or series of incidents
- A quaint and amusing jest
- 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, although found earlier and later. ...
- An amusing figure, often of a grotesque character. Drolleries appear throughout the history of book illumination, from insular works such as the Book of Kells to late medieval manuscripts. Click here to close this window
- A small comic figure (or part of a figure) drawn or painted in the margin of an illuminated manuscript or hidden in a border or in the decoration of an initial letter. ...
