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Definition of Drolls
1. droll [v] - See also: droll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drolls
Literary usage of Drolls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt (1892)
"drolls. The Wits, or Sport upon Sport: In Select Pieces of Drollery, ... A Series
of drolls or short entertainments pe,formed at Fairs, Taverns, etc., ..."
2. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand (1905)
"The puppet-shows and drolls in- tome, that upon the three first days .if eluded St.
George and the Dragon, Guy pi Bartholomew Fayre, ..."
3. History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy L'Estrange (1878)
"Southey—drolls of Bartholomew Fair—The " Doves"— Typographical Devices—Puns—Poems
of Abel Shuffle- bottom. WE have already mentioned the name of Southey. ..."
4. Westminster Drolleries: Both Parts, of 1671, 1672; Being a Choice Collection by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1875)
"THE drolls AND THE DROLLERIES. It may not be uninteresting for us to trace,
hereafter, the history of the so-called authors and collectors of the various ..."
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