2. Noun. A short polite conversation before the serious conversation ¹
3. Noun. "Exchanging pleasantries" ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pleasantries
1. pleasantry [n] - See also: pleasantry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasantries
Literary usage of Pleasantries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"Pleasantries of Comedians To a certain comedian it was said, " When a cock riseth
up in the early morning hours, why doth he hold one foot in the air? ..."
2. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Hood, Keats and the Elizabethans: The Two Swans, Plea of the Midsummer Fairies,
etc.; lyrics ; poems of pathos and terror ; pleasantries in verse and prose. ..."
3. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... Art thou going to send down thine head to the oven to be baked ? "—" Book of
Laughable Stories." Pleasantries of Comedians ..."
4. The Blue Friars: Their Sayings and Doings ; Being a New Chapter in the by William Henry Kearley Wright (1889)
"That on a sample of the "Pleasantries" being submitted for Mr. Fraser's ...
The following is a complete list of " Blue Friar Pleasantries" which appeared in ..."
5. The Romance of the American Theatre by Mary Caroline Crawford (1913)
"Many and noted were Cooke's little pleasantries of this kind while in society.
In Baltimore a gentleman in whose home he was being entertained chanced to ..."
6. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"... but for tine difference of the obvious meaning of the ex-1 pleasantries of
wit, or of easier and less fv- pression of the speaker or writer, ..."
7. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"Pleasantries of Comedians To a certain comedian it was said, " When a cock riseth
up in the early morning hours, why doth he hold one foot in the air? ..."
8. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Hood, Keats and the Elizabethans: The Two Swans, Plea of the Midsummer Fairies,
etc.; lyrics ; poems of pathos and terror ; pleasantries in verse and prose. ..."
9. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... Art thou going to send down thine head to the oven to be baked ? "—" Book of
Laughable Stories." Pleasantries of Comedians ..."
10. The Blue Friars: Their Sayings and Doings ; Being a New Chapter in the by William Henry Kearley Wright (1889)
"That on a sample of the "Pleasantries" being submitted for Mr. Fraser's ...
The following is a complete list of " Blue Friar Pleasantries" which appeared in ..."
11. The Romance of the American Theatre by Mary Caroline Crawford (1913)
"Many and noted were Cooke's little pleasantries of this kind while in society.
In Baltimore a gentleman in whose home he was being entertained chanced to ..."
12. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"... but for tine difference of the obvious meaning of the ex-1 pleasantries of
wit, or of easier and less fv- pression of the speaker or writer, ..."
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