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sottisiers

sottisiers is the plural of sottisier.

Meaning of sottisier

Noun

sottisier (plural sottisiers)

  1. (uncommon) A compilation of banal, hackneyed, or otherwise objectionable snippets of text from various authors.
    • I had intended to provide the book derisively with an appendix, vermiform. Papa Flaubert compiled a sottisier, I also compiled a sottisier. I do not yield a jot in my belief that such compilations are useful, I concede that there may be no need of reprinting mine at this moment. At any rate the...1934, Ezra Pound, “Date Line”, in Make It New, London: Faber & Faber, page 16

Questions about sottisiers

What is sottisiers the plural of?
Sottisiers is the plural of sottisier.

Words near sottisiers in the dictionary

  1. sottish
  2. sottishly
  3. sottishness
  4. sottishnesses
  5. sottisier
  6. sottisiers
  7. sotto
  8. sotto voce
  9. sotto voci
  10. sottocopied
  11. sottocopies

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