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Decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript
A drollery, often also called a grotesque, is a small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, most popular from about 1250 through
Drollery
Marks made in margins of book pages
may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations. Biblical manuscripts have notes in the margin, for
Marginalia
American actor (born 1968)
Kissel of The New York Daily News remarked that he delivered "all the drollery with a perfect deadpan and a twinkle" while David Patrick Stearns of USA
Timothy_Olyphant
Tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement
Non-satirical humour can be specifically termed droll humour or recreational drollery. Humour is also observed in great apes. As with any art form, the acceptance
Humour
Legal proceedings in Massachusetts (1692–93)
drummer, in the house of Mr. John Mompesson, with some reflections on drollery and atheisme Glanvill, Joseph. "Essay IV Against modern Sadducism in the
Salem_witch_trials
1900 novel by Pierre Louÿs
serial form in 1900. The work has been called "a graceful and spicy bit of drollery". It was the basis for the 1930 operetta Les aventures du roi Pausole with
The Adventures of King Pausole
The_Adventures_of_King_Pausole
15th-century illuminated manuscript
decoration of the book is in the form of 107 historiated initials, and drolleries. Art historian Victor Leroquais considered the quality shifting: some
Breviary_of_Marie_of_Savoy
2017 book by Stephen Fry
enjoy his media personality and particular style of post‑Wodehouse English drollery are in for a treat". "Heroes The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold
Mythos_(book)
Award ceremony for films of 2000
2015. Retrieved June 12, 2014. Bianco, Robert (March 26, 2001). "Martin's drollery keeps fast-moving Oscars on track". USA Today. Archived from the original
73rd_Academy_Awards
Medieval manuscript
of these decretals is known for its marginal illustrations which are drolleries unrelated to the texts but instead picture other fables, fancies and stories
Smithfield_Decretals
2018 dark comedy thriller film directed by Jonathan Watson
crtiics consensus reads, "Arizona will provide twisted thrills and ludicrous drollery for Danny McBride diehards; everyone else may seek greener pastures." At
Arizona_(2018_film)
American screenwriter (1899–1982)
comedian, television writer, and magazine columnist. His low-key, literate drollery and softly tart way of tweaking trends and pretenses made him one of the
Goodman_Ace
2001 film by Wes Anderson
classified as a comedy, but it contained "a deep vein of melancholia to its drollery". The Guardian's Joe Queenan embraced it as a "bizarre redemption tale"
The_Royal_Tenenbaums
Indian actor and singer (born 1984)
Khurrana's "candid disposition and roguish face ensures his street smart drollery works like a breeze". With worldwide earnings of over ₹610 million (US$6
Ayushmann_Khurrana
1989 studio album by Nirvana
Bleach. Cobain's gigantic, goofy, bass-playing buddy Krist Novoselic added drollery to the band's chaotic irreverence." Christgau later commented that while
Bleach_(Nirvana_album)
American entertainer (1848–1881)
remarkable dwarf, who was a sharp, intelligent little fellow, with a deal of drollery and wit. He had a splendid head, was perfectly formed, and was very attractive
Commodore_Nutt
American actor (1911–1985)
Brooks Atkinson praised him as "an uproarious comic. He has the speed, the drollery and the shell-game style of a honky-tonk buffoon." Silvers later scored
Phil_Silvers
British musical artist
2010. growing cult following for his brilliant bursts of surrealism and drollery ... notably winning awards for his sting designs for E4, and for TV ads
Cyriak
Victorian-era theatrical partnership
collaboration as follows: Sullivan has never had an equal for brightness and drollery, for humour without coarseness and without vulgarity, and for charm and
Gilbert_and_Sullivan
Middle English poem by William Langland
Page from the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter, showing drolleries on the right margin and a ploughman at the bottom
Piers_Plowman
1879 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
closer attention to the words [but] there are great stores of wit and drollery ... which will well repay exploration. ... The music is fresh, bright,
The_Pirates_of_Penzance
Artistic style of representing subjects realistically
relatively small amount of space or effort to be devoted to such scenes. Drolleries in the margins of medieval illuminated manuscripts sometimes contain small
Realism_(arts)
American novelist
propensity for neuroses, fallacies, and other inanities requires measured drollery and surgical concision. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Levine attended the
Stacey_Levine
American actress and singer (1915–1998)
only trying to protect the wife of the money I love" was a typical Harris drollery), and occasional barbs by Faye aimed at her rift with Zanuck, usually referencing
Alice_Faye
1926 novel by Hope Mirrlees
describe Lud-in-the-Mist as "a moving book, shifting unpredictably from drollery to menace to a high poignancy that sticks in the mind". Lud-in-the-Mist
Lud-in-the-Mist
American serial comedy radio series
American serial radio comedy (1930–1945). It was trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman Ace and his wife, Jane, as an urbane, put-upon
Easy_Aces
American author and public speaker (born 1950)
Osgood, Kelsey (March 25, 2014). "Biographies We Need: The Delightful Drollery of Fran Lebowitz". signature-reads.com. Retrieved May 8, 2018. "What Does
Fran_Lebowitz
Medieval European entertainer
in Chinese opera Clown society – Organization of comedic entertainers Drollery – Decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript Fool (stock
Jester
Manuscript in which the text is supplemented by decoration
very elaborate decorated borders of foliate patterns, often with small drolleries. A Gothic page might contain several areas and types of decoration: a
Illuminated_manuscript
Literary genre
play. English collections of erotic verse by various hands include the Drollery collections of the 17th century; Pills to Purge Melancholy (1698–1720);
Erotic_literature
English writer (1880–1948)
Walpole, 1924 The Complete Works of Thomas Shadwell, 1927 Covent Garden Drollery, 1927 Horrid Mysteries by the Marquis de Grosse 1927 (part of an incomplete
Montague_Summers
dragoon drape draper drapery dress (Old Fr. dresser) dressage dresser droll drollery dropsy, Old Fr. idropsie drug druid, Old Fr. druide, from Latin druidae
List of English words of French origin (D–I)
List_of_English_words_of_French_origin_(D–I)
Art style
expressions, in a direct continuation of the medieval traditions of the drolleries in the border decorations or initials in illuminated manuscripts. From
Grotesque
Manuscript illuminator
Parisian Gothic-era manuscript illuminator who excelled in the invention of drolleries as well as traditional iconography. He is considered one of the best miniaturists
Jean_Pucelle
Domesticated form of European rabbit
(2013). House Rabbit Handbook: How to Live with an Urban Rabbit (5th ed.). Drollery Press. ISBN 978-0-940920-18-7. Dorożyńska, K.; Maj, D. (February 2021)
Domestic_rabbit
English music hall comedian, actor and singer (1860–1904)
Campbell and Mr. Harry Nicholls, would have no excuse if they did not vie in drollery with the light footed Dan Leno. Babes in the Wood was a triumph: the theatre
Dan_Leno
British actor (1903–1991)
Eleanor (7 May 1991). "Wilfrid Hyde-White, 87, Actor Known for His Urbane Drollery". The New York Times. "Wilfrid Hyde White | Theatricalia". theatricalia
Wilfrid_Hyde-White
2006 black comedy novel written by Jean Teulé
right distance – neither too light in the content, nor too heavy in the drollery –, a nice dose of derision, and the imagination necessary for such a subject
The_Suicide_Shop
British barrister and Member of Parliament (1758-1794)
occasion involved a rebuke to the younger man for futile attempts at "smart drollery". No evidence has been found to support the claim that he was married,
Richard_Burke_Jr.
2024 animated film by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham
Times. Aguilar, Carlos (19 December 2024). "Aardman's patented British drollery returns with top-notch 'Vengeance Most Fowl'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace_&_Gromit:_Vengeance_Most_Fowl
Dutch and Flemish painter (c. 1525/30–1569)
forward-looking, his art reinvigorates medieval subjects such as marginal drolleries of ordinary life in illuminated manuscripts, and the calendar scenes of
Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder
1935 novel by John Steinbeck
moving". The New York Times, meanwhile, praised Steinbeck's "gift for drollery and for turning Spanish talk and phrases into a gently mocking English"
Tortilla_Flat
English nursery rhyme
Three verses of a variant of "Hark Hark", from the Westminster Drollery (1672)
Hark,_Hark!_The_Dogs_Do_Bark
2010 film by Jonathan Lynn
"slight screwball thriller" and noting that the screenplay "delivers enough drolleries and a workable running gag or two." Wild Target grossed $0.1 million in
Wild_Target
Style of illustration from the European High and Late Middle Ages
Europe. Independent scenes were often executed as historiated initials and drolleries at the lower edge of the picture. These scenes offered space for imaginative
Gothic_book_illustration
1878 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
occasions been productive of such legitimate amusement, such novel forms of drollery, such original wit, and unexpected whimsicality, that nothing was more
H.M.S._Pinafore
1985 American science fiction film
interesting twists and a shoestring budget, the film glimmers with moments of drollery." The film was not a success. On its first weekend, it only peaked at #14
My_Science_Project
Simple drawing
Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Asemic writing Automatic writing Drolleries Fidgeting Graffiti Graphology Marginalia Memory and retention in learning
Doodle
humour". The Era said, "The humour of the dialogue is delightful, the drollery of the situations is irresistible, but what we like even more are the touches
Lady_Huntworth's_Experiment
Day of the year
be a one-shot appearance on the Benny broadcast; the audience loved his drollery and he became a member of the cast. Anderson constantly deflated Benny's
February_28
Canadian comics artist (born 1983)
Glen (22 September 2011). "Cartoonist Beaton's "Hark! A Vagrant!" Finds Drollery in Drawing Rooms". NPR: Monkey See. "Ignatz Awards 2012". SPX. Archived
Kate_Beaton
which was then affixed to a series of translucent plaques depicting drolleries (hybrid human and animal figures). Since the fountain functions via hydraulics
Cleveland_table_fountain
European literary genre from the Renaissance
Renaissance consisting of short humorous stories, jokes, jests, witticisms or drollery, often obscene or coarse. The first printed joke book is Facetiae (full
Facetia
American horse trainer (1876–1934)
presentation, replaced this part of the act with a riding turn. Next, the drollery of an English comic brought forth mild laughter. Cossack trick riding with
Jack_Joyce_(horse_trainer)
1987 film by Elaine May
August 24, 2025. Benson, Sheila (May 15, 1987). "Movie Review: Ishtar - Drollery in the Desert". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 11, 2024. Rosenbaum,
Ishtar_(film)
Mythical figure
and "rich" ones. The wild folk are featured in the marginal paintings (drollery) in a number of illuminated manuscripts. There are wild men and women painted
Wild_man
British diplomat, explorer, and businessman
lovable and saint-like man. His dandiacal appearance and his taste for drollery were unsure guides to his true character, in which the dominant strain
Archibald_Rose
Irish breeder of thoroughbred racehorses (1725–1787)
perfectly illiterate; but being blessed with a good memory, and native drollery, he was seldom at a loss in conversation, and took part in every subject
Dennis_O'Kelly
17th-century Dutch painting
painting" – until the late 18th century the English often called them "drolleries". Some artists worked mostly within one of these sub-types, especially
Dutch_Golden_Age_painting
commenced his theatrical career at the Victoria Theatre, where his juvenile drollery soon attracted attention. In 1835 he appeared at a small theatre which
Richard_Flexmore
1932 comedy play written by Noël Coward
. Skill, art, even erudition of a sort have gone into this gay bit of drollery." The New York Sun called it "as happy a spectacle of surface skating as
Design_for_Living
Novel by Mal Peet
Nicolette Jones, The Murdstone Trilogy by Mal Peet, review: 'delicious drollery', The Telegraph, 9 December 2014. David Fickling, Book Publisher's Release
The_Murdstone_Trilogy
Pakistani comedy film
Pakistan. Kalsoom. 13 June 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2014. "Gol Chakkar - a Drollery Protraction Movie of Adolescent Endowments". Cybo Tainment. Retrieved 7
Gol_Chakkar
Farce by W. S. Gilbert
characteristic of the author's happiest manner. There is certainly a good deal of drollery in Foggerty's interview with Malvina de Vere, and their friendly steps
Foggerty's_Fairy
Australian author, columnist and social commentator, and academic
76. ISBN 0909977356. "Did You hear the one About... Diana, Death and Drollery" in I. Ang, H. Grace, Z. Sofoulis & R. Barcan (eds) Global Mourning: A
Karen_Brooks_(author)
English poet and playwright (1586 – c. 1639)
melancholia may have been more than merely intellectual. The volume Choice Drollery (1656) asserts that Deep in a dump alone John Ford was gat, With folded
John_Ford_(dramatist)
Creative and graphic process
notetaker desires, as there is no correct or uniform way to sketchnote. Drollery Graphic organizer Graphic recording Method of loci Mnemonic Note-taking
Sketchnoting
Gentleman Thief. The Era reported that Leno "made a capital Tinker, full of drollery and grotesque business." Sinbad brought Leno to the attention of Augustus
Theatre productions of Dan Leno
Theatre_productions_of_Dan_Leno
German dancer, cabaret artist, sculptor, painter and manufacturer (1906–1995)
who wrote about her ability to present with a "trinity" of temperament, drollery and grace ("Dreieinigkeit von Temperament, Drolligkeit und Grazie"), lively
Hedi_Schoop
2000 compilation album
Robert Hoeke Rhythm & Blues Group: "When People Talk" The Fun of It: "Drollery" – Rel. 1966 The Phantoms: "Someday I'm Somebody" – Rel. 1965 The Jets:
Essential_Pebbles,_Volume_3
English lawyer and collector of verse
first printed in the Merry Drollery, 1661, p. 53; they reappeared in Wit and Drollery, 1661, p. 260; and in Merry Drollery Compleat, 1670, and again in
Richard_Adams_(poet)
1965 play by Joe Orton
Michael Fentiman that reminds us of the serious intent behind Orton’s drollery." Loot was made into a film of the same name in 1970, directed by Silvio
Loot_(play)
1953 book
wonderfully observed", and holisticshop applauded "its naive candours, its drolleries, its unconscious humour, its oscillations between the ridiculous and the
The_Boy_Who_Saw_True
Children's book by Beatrix Potter
In her new book ... although there is no diminution in the charm and drollery of the drawings, Miss Potter's fancy is not what it was. The story is inconclusive
The_Tale_of_Benjamin_Bunny
1923 "The Wanderer" part-song TTBB unacc. — Anon., adapted from Wit and Drollery, 1661 Novello 1923 "Zut, zut, zut!" part-song TTBB unacc. — Richard Marden
List of compositions by Edward Elgar
List_of_compositions_by_Edward_Elgar
1875 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
living rival among our dramatic writers, and never has his peculiar vein of drollery and satire been more conspicuous than in a little piece entitled Trial
Trial_by_Jury
British comedian
personation of old men and country boys, in which he displayed a fund of drollery and broad humour. An introduction to Charles Kemble led to his appearance
John_Liston
English classical scholar and cleric (1735–1804)
besides being deep in musical knowledge, is a man of great humour and drollery." Thomas's half-brother Richard Twining, a director of the East India Company
Thomas_Twining_(scholar)
1996 Italian film
According to author Massimo Bertarelli, the film is just made of "exasperating drollery and depressing sloppiness". "Scheda del film Comico di Jerry Calà". Il
Chicken_Park
1940 American film
year. Boxoffice: "It assays high in hilarity, due not only to Errol's drollery in a dual role but also because of [an] ingeniously concocted farce script
Mexican_Spitfire_Out_West
1892 comic novel by George and Weeden Grossmith
they have all faded away". The reviewer recommended the book's "quaint drollery, its whimsical satire and delightfully quiet irony". In Canada, Queen's
The_Diary_of_a_Nobody
his skill; and in the second edition of the collection entitled Wit and Drollery (1682) he is described as still delighting London with his jumping. A picture
Jacob_Hall
Book by John W. Chater
for Lady-Day, forming a collection of Parlour Poetry and Drawing Room Drollery, suitable for all seasons; And supplying Smiles for Summer, Amusement for
Chater's_Annual
Oilfield 12 1976 Barcas One On the Aisle Neapolitan Way 9 1975 Bemo Outdoors Drollery 13 1974 London Company Scrimscaw Mister Diz 9 1973 Laplander Chrisaway
Dixie Stakes top three finishers
Dixie_Stakes_top_three_finishers
Musical
Phil Silvers' performance as "an uproarious comic. He has the speed, the drollery and the shell-game style of a honky-tonk buffoon." He commented that the
High_Button_Shoes
1952 film by Joseph Pevney
starring Ann Sheridan and John Lund, unwinds with such unassuming drollery that even some arch contrivances and a messy windup don't quite spoil the
Just_Across_the_Street
Flemish illuminated manuscript (ca. 1510–20)
masters. There are wide borders, many with flowers and other objects and drolleries, and another group with trompe-l'œil imitations of bronzes. Other borders
Rothschild_Prayerbook
prize given for poetry by the Académie française Anonymous, Westminster-Drollery; or, A Choice Collection of the Newest Songs & Poems Both at Court & Theaters
1671_in_poetry
Canadian comedian
shone in 2015". Toronto Star, December 27, 2015. Andrew Friesen, "Seasonal drollery". The Varsity, December 6, 2015. Glenn Sumi, "Second City goes to the dark
Brandon_Hackett
17th-century British playwright
Poets." It was first published anonymously in the 1656 collection Choice Drollery, Songs, and Sonnets. As John Heminges' last surviving son, William Heminges
William_Heminges
English peer
Sydney Papers (ii, 621) and a poem addressed to her is printed in Choice Drollery, 1656. Her portrait and that of her eldest son, Charles, were part of the
Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon
Robert_Dormer,_1st_Earl_of_Carnarvon
Scottish writer
Scots & English, pamphlet 219 pub Malfranteaux Concepts March 2026 The Drollery, Tales and Poems in Scots & English, pamphlet 220 pub Malfranteaux Concepts
Sheena_Blackhall
1964 British film
Thompson of The New York Times called the film: "a slick, bland shuffling of drollery and suspense, not especially new, at least by now, nor really funny. .
Hot_Enough_for_June
English poet and playwright (1606–1668)
"Certain Verses, written by severall of the author’s friends" 1656: Wit and Drollery: Jovial Poems 1657: Poems on Several Occasions 1660: "A Panegyric to his
William_Davenant
1949 film by Chester Erskine
"curiously mixed-up mystery picture" and wrote: "Something of the same drollery that was displayed by William Powell in his saturnine performance of Nick
Take_One_False_Step
Railway station in Kent, England
"cocks" or "catch pennies": a large and curious assortment of street-drolleries, squibs, histories, comic tales in prose and verse, broadsides on the
Dover_Priory_railway_station
English author
authorities, but almost immediately replaced by a similar collection, Wit and Drollery. In Montelion (1660) he ridiculed the astrological almanacs of William
John_Phillips_(author)
politics: His wit was not nimble; his success in his new role lay rather in drollery and ponderous loquacity, which, combined with his knowledge of the rules
Frederick_Schermbrucker
1914 film
of incidental business enlivens the above skeleton [of a plot] with its drollery and original conceit.". Moving Picture World was even more enthusiastic
Good_Cider
Jewish humor about a city of fools
How the Wise Men..., p. 188 The Book of Noodles, CHAPTER III. GOTHAMITE DROLLERIES (continued). Alter Druyanov, Sefer ha-Bedicha ve-ha-Chidud (ספר הבדיחה
Wise_Men_of_Chelm
DROLLERY
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Girl/Female
Hindu
Goddess devis another name, Hidden
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Adorning the Assembly
Girl/Female
Tamil
Goddess Lakshmi
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
The Man-lion; Fourth Incarnation of Vishnu
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
To Meditate
Female
Esperanto
Esperanto name CHIELA means "heavenly."
Girl/Female
Arabic, British, English, Indian, Netherlands
Glamour; Overlook
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
The First Demon
Boy/Male
English
From Wine's Estate
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Brightness of the Faith
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n.
Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.
n.
A lively or comic picture.
n.
The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
pl.
of Drollery
n.
A puppet show; also, a puppet.
n.
Something which serves to raise mirth