Adjective : fescennine mockery. From Dictionary.com.
Nowas makes his appearance the fun becomes fescennine and milesian. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Finally, wherever the honest and independent old debauchee Abu Nowas makes his appearance the fun becomes fescennine and milesian. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
( "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. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Here rang out the joyous conversation, interspersed with the Latin epithalamium of some impromptu poet, or the fescennine verses of a German minnesinger. From Wordnik.com. [Pater Peter. English.] Reference
These are the things that put the 'Great' in Britain, and just a fraction of the fescennine cast of this unexpectedly brilliant point-and-click adventure from Northern Irish animation studio Straandlooper. From Wordnik.com. [Eurogamer] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXXVI] Reference
And just a few words later we'll be out and about in paragraph seven itself to find out just what all the fuss, the hysteria and the frat-boy whooping is about in the company of Great Britain's very own me, with a little help from gold medal adjective, fescennine. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
So, without further ado, let's take a look back right now at what, by any stretch of somebody's imagination has been a wonderfully frenetic, if not-quite as fescennine as we might have hoped, column, starting with that incredible opening sentence which now seems as if it occurred - oh my goodness!. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
A bantering playfulness, or a fescennine gaiety, equally unsuited to the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
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