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FESCENNINE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
adjective. scurrilous; licentious; obscene . fescennine mockery.
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FESCENNINE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of FESCENNINE is scurrilous, obscene.
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Fescennine Verses - Wikipedia
Fescennine Verses (Fescennina carmina), one of the earliest kinds of Italian poetry, subsequently developed into satire and Roman comic drama.
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Fescennine
Fescennine, a. and n. (ˈfɛsəˌnaɪn) [ad. L. Fescennīn-us pertaining to Fescennia in Etruria, famous for a sort of jeering dialogues in verse.] A. adj. esp. in Fescennine verses. Pertaining to or characteristic of Fescennia; usually in a bad sense, licentious, obscene, scurrilous.1601 Holland Pliny I....
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Fescennine - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Adjective · Of or pertaining to the ancient Etruscan town of Fescennia · obscene or scurrilous · 1856, Richard Francis Burton, Personal narrative of a ...
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Fescennine verse | Rituals, Satire, Laughter - Britannica
Fescennine verse, early native Italian jocular dialogue in Latin verse. At vintage and harvest, and probably at other rustic festivals, these were sung by ...
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Fescennine Verses
Fescennine Verses (Fescennina carmina), one of the earliest kinds of Italian poetry, subsequently developed into satire and Roman comic drama. Etymology
Various derivations have been proposed for the word "Fescennine."
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FESCENNINE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. Rare a long stick, straw, etc., used as a teacher's pointer 2. any of a genus (Festuca) of grasses, many of which are used in the temperate zone as lawn and ...
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Fescennine - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Fescennine(adj.) "vulgar, obscene, scurrilous," from Latin Fescenninus (versus), a rude form of dramatic or satiric verse, from Fescennia, city in Etruria, ...
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Fescennine - WorldWideWords.org
A rare word meaning something scurrilous, Fescennine comes from the name of an Estruscan town.
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Fescennine, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more
Fescennine is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin Fescennīnus. See etymology. Nearby entries. fervently, adv.c1374–; ferventness, n.1398–; fervescent, ...
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Fescennia
The term Fescennine Verses refers to a certain kind of drinking song popular at festivals in ancient Rome and elsewhere.
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Fascinus
Fescennine Verses, the satiric and often lewd songs or chants performed on various social occasions, may have been so-named from the fascinum; ancient
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verse
▪ I. verse, n. (vɜːs) Forms: 1, 4 fers (1 færs, fyrs), 3 Orm. ferrs; 1–4 uers, 1, 3–4, 5–6 Sc., vers, 4–5 wers; 4– verse, 5, 6 Sc., werse; 5 veerse, veerce, 6 vearse, 5–6 Sc. veirs, 6 Sc. veirse. [OE. fers, corresponding to OFris. fers (WFris. fêrs, NFris. fês, etc.), MDu. (Du.) and MLG. vers, OHG.,...
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Barry McKenzie
(1971), and later, Bazza Comes Into His Own: The Final Fescennine Farago of Barry McKenzie, Australia's First Working-Class Hero—With Learned and Scholarly
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