facetiae

• If Panty was not the authoress of these inane facetiae, who was? —  Final Curtain - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 14
• I was borne by a mysterious inner impulse which I could not resist into this terrible whirlpool of belles- lettres_, occulta, facetiae, and philosophy; but I had, God knows, little cause for pride that I read so much, for it was on every hand in some way turned against me. —  Memoirs
• Much of Thomas Warton's poetry, such as his facetiae in the "Oxford Sausage" and his "Triumph of Isis," had an academic flavor. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
• At this time Lamb contributed (generally facetiae) to various newspapers, now forgotten. —  Charles Lamb
• "_Ally -- ally_," answered Brammel with a knowing leer, attempting a little _facetiae_ in French. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843

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