fescennine

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Here rang out the joyous conversation, interspersed with the Latin epithalamium of some impromptu poet, or the fescennine verses of a German minnesinger.

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  • Here rang out the joyous conversation, interspersed with the Latin epithalamium of some impromptu poet, or the fescennine verses of a German minnesinger. —  Pater Peter. English.
  • From Suckling we should have had a bantering playfulness, or a fescennine gaiety, equally unsuited to the subject. —  The Lucasta Poems
  • Most frequently the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain for a time a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine verses in a particular order. —  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02
  • a bantering playfulness, or a fescennine gaiety, equally unsuited to the subject. —  The Lucasta Poems
  • ( "Smaragdine") in Ali Shar (vol.iv. 187) shows at her sale the impudence of Miriam the Girdle-girl and in bed the fescennine device of the Lady Budur. —  Arabian nights. English
 

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  1. Latin Fescennīnus, of Fescennia, a town of ancient Etruria known for its licentious poetry.
 

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