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Definition of Lampooners
1. lampooner [n] - See also: lampooner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lampooners
Literary usage of Lampooners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Times of Titian: With Some Account of His Family by Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Joseph Archer Crowe (1881)
"Aretino and his lampooners.—Del Vasto gives a Canonry to Titian's son.—The "
Allocution."—Portrait of Bembo.—Death of Pordenone.—Titian regains his Broker's ..."
2. The Laureates of England: Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson by Frances Louise Morse Howland (1895)
"... And, wakened by the glowing scene, Unfold the world that lurks within, ON ONE
OF HIS lampooners. CHURCHILL had strength of thought, had power to paint, ..."
3. The Sense of Humor by Max Eastman (1921)
"Aristotle tells us it was the "lampooners" who became writers of comedy when
dramatic action began to take the place of the recitation of poems. ..."
4. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... countenance given to his works, detract from virtue, and flander innocence,
under _the merry appellation of lampooners. Foreigners may learn in England, ..."
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