Definitions for drollery
ˈdroʊ lə ridrolle·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. drollery, clowning, comedy, funninessnoun

   a comic incident or series of incidents

2. drollery, waggerynoun

   a quaint and amusing jest

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drollerynoun

   comical quality.

2. drollerynoun

   amusing behaviour.

3. drollerynoun

   something humorous, funny or comical.

4. drollerynoun

   a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.

5. drollerynoun

   a joke; a funny story.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drollerynoun

   Idle jokes; buffoonery.

   Etymology: from droll.

   They hang between heaven and hell, borrow the Christians faith, and the atheists drollery upon it. Governm. of the Tongue.

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1. Drollery

   A drollerie, often also called a grotesque, is a small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, most popular from about 1250 through the 15th century, though found earlier and later. The most common types of drollery images appear as mixed creatures, either between different animals, or between animals and human beings, or even between animals and plants or inorganic things. Examples include cocks with human heads, dogs carrying human masks, archers winding out of a fish's mouth, bird-like dragons with an elephant's head on the back. Often they have a thematic connection with the subject of the text of the page, and larger miniatures, and they usually form part of a wider scheme of decorated margins, though some are effectively doodles added later. The word comes from the French drôlerie, meaning a joke. One manuscript, The Croy Hours, has so many it has become known as The Book of Drolleries. Another manuscript that contains many drolleries is the English Luttrell Psalter, which has hybrid creatures and other monsters on a great deal of the pages. This comes from the East Anglian school of illumination, which was especially fond of adding drolleries. The Taymouth Hours, Gorleston Psalter, and Smithfield Decretals are other examples; all four are 14th-century and now in the British Library. In the Taymouth Hours the images are inside the main frame given each page, and so are strictly bas de page images rather than being "marginal". The images mix sacred subjects relevant to the text with secular ones that are not. Such images are the most plentiful sources of contemporary illustrations of ordinary life in the period, and many are often seen reproduced in modern books.In English, "drollerie" was also a term in the 18th century for genre paintings of low-life subjects, especially those in Dutch Golden Age painting, which indeed are to some extent descended from the medieval marginal images.

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1. drollery

   Drollery refers to humor or amusing eccentricity, often involving wit or satire. It can also refer to a small figure or drawing incorporated into an illustrated book for amusement, typically in medieval works.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drollerynoun

   the quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners

2. Drollerynoun

   something which serves to raise mirth

3. Drollerynoun

   a puppet show; also, a puppet

4. Drollerynoun

   a lively or comic picture

5. Etymology: [F. drlerie. See Droll.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of drollery in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

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   The numerical value of drollery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=drollery
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Drollery
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=drollery
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drollery
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drollery