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Definition of Drolleries
1. drollery [n] - See also: drollery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drolleries
Literary usage of Drolleries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1877)
"drolleries.—Bristol Drollery. Poems and Songs. By Mr. C. sm: 8vo. London, Printed
for Charles Allen, Bookseller iu Bristol, 1674. ..."
2. Collectanea Anglo-poetica: Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue by Thomas Corser, James Crossley (1877)
"drolleries.—Bristol Drollery. Poems and Songs. By Mr. C. sm: 8vo. London, Printed
for Charles Allen, Bookseller in Bristol, 1674. ..."
3. A History of American Literature by Moses Coit Tyler (1878)
"... heterogeneous, able book—Its style and scope—Its drolleries—His dislike of
the Indians, of the French, of Whitefield, of Bishop Berkeley, and of paper- ..."
4. A History of American Literature During the Colonial Period, 1607-1765 by Moses Coit Tyler (1878)
"... heterogeneous, able book—Its style and scope—Its drolleries—His dislike of
the Indians, of the French, of Whitefield, of Bishop Berkeley, ..."
5. The New English by T[homas] L[aurence] Kington Oliphant (1886)
"... 'Choice drolleries.' The old form demy (deny) is still used ; the и replaces
a, as clutter for clatter ; the word ale rimes sometimes with small, ..."
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