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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.... Oxford English Dictionary
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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." wikipedia.org
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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. wikipedia.org
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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 wikipedia.org
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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.,... Oxford English Dictionary
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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 wikipedia.org
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Eclogue 3
The Romans were very fond of coarse invective and repartee, and these form the staple of the Satura (one of the earliest forms of Latin drama), the Fescennine wikipedia.org
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Liber physiognomiae
nothing but the urgent desire of Court and people that the marriage should prove fruitful can explain, one might add excuse, some passages of almost fescennine wikipedia.org
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Barry Humphries
Bazza Comes into His Own: The Final Fescennine Farago of Barry McKenzie, Australia's first working-class hero—with learned and scholarly appendices and wikipedia.org
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Theatre of ancient Rome
comedy that depicted the supposed backwards thinking of the southeastern Oscan town of Atella; a form of ethnic humor that arose around 300 BC), and Fescennine wikipedia.org
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Spectacles in ancient Rome
performance had already developed in the Italian peninsula, owing both to Greek influence and to local traditions, including: (i) in Etruria and Rome the fescennine wikipedia.org
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