Definition of Drolls

1. Noun. (plural of droll) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drolls

1. droll [v] - See also: droll

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drolls

droll
drolled
droller
drolleries
drollers
drollery
drollest
drolling
drollingly
drollings
drollish
drollist
drollists
drollness
drollnesses
drolls (current term)
drolly
dromaeognathous
dromaeosaur
dromaeosaurid
dromaeosaurids
dromaeosaurs
dromatherium
drome
dromedaries
dromedary
dromedary hump
dromeosaur
dromeosaurs
dromes

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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