goliardery
goliardery noun: the satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.
Noun
goliardery (uncountable)
- The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.
- The Goliards became a kind of monkish rhapsodists , the companions and rivals of the Jongleurs ( the reciters of the merry and licentious fabliaux ) ; Goliardery was a recognised kind of mediæval poetry1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity
- The medieval Latin equivalent of a "bourgeois" tradition is to be seen variously in comedy, goliardery, and satire, and in epistolary and expository prose.1957, Charles Muscatine, Chaucer and the French Tradition, page 251
Examples of goliardery in a sentence
- Goliardery cannot be described as religious verse; it is characterised by a strong sense for the worldly life, containing a good deal of love poetry and drinking poems.1988, The Bryggen Papers, volume 2, Supplementary series, page 27:
- Jean is of course not basing his poem on a refurbishment of twelfth-century goliardery.1992, Jelena O. Krstovic, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, volume 8, page 409:
Origin of goliardery
From Goliard + -ery.
Questions about goliardery
- What does goliardery mean?
- Goliardery means the satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.
- How do you use goliardery in a sentence?
- Goliardery cannot be described as religious verse; it is characterised by a strong sense for the worldly life, containing a good deal of love poetry and drinking poems.
- What part of speech is goliardery?
- Goliardery is a noun.
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