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noun

Drollery n. (pl. drolleries)

The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. "The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer.""

Something which serves to raise mirth; as:

(a)

A puppet show; also, a puppet. (Obs.)

(b)

A lively or comic picture. (Obs.) "I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton."

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"Drollery" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I'll go, of course," he said as if in a dream. "Of course I'll go at once, but—why—if Miss Flora already—?" Then suddenly he recovered himself in the way Anna knew so well. "Miss Anna"—he gestured with his cap, his eyes kindling with a strange mixture of worship and drollery though his brow ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

... not yet complete. His legs were encased in Hessian boots; his shooting-jacket was somewhat the worse for wear; and his hat, which had been eminently respectable at first starting, had acquired a sort of brigandish air; and to add to the drollery of his general appearance, the excellent little Servian horse he rode was not high enough for a man ...

— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse

... There is a natural gravity and a sonorous stateliness about Spanish, be it ever so colloquial, that make an absurdity doubly absurd, and give plausibility to the most preposterous statement. This is what makes Sancho Panza's drollery the despair of the conscientious translator. Sancho's curt comments can never fall flat, but they lose half their flavour when transferred from their native Castilian into any other medium. But if foreigners have failed to do justice to the humour of Cervantes, they are ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... head to foot in leaves and looked like walking bushes. In this costume they crept from one visitor to another. Such a boy covered with leaves and his head adorned with twigs is called a "Pfingstkonig" [Whitsuntide-King]. This drollery is customary ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

... to breakfast, but it was evident, notwithstanding the boasting of Mr. Peter Magnus, that he laboured under a very considerable degree of nervousness, of which loss of appetite, a propensity to upset the tea-things, a spectral attempt at drollery, and an irresistible inclination to look at the clock, every other second, were among the ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

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