drolleries 

  1. 名詞
drollery複數: 古怪有趣的圖畫

    同義字詞
crack,funny,gag,jape,jest,joke,laugh,one-liner,pleasantry,quip,rib,sally,waggery,wisecrack,witticism
comedy,comic,comicality,drollness,funniness,hilariousness,humor,humorousness,richness,uproariousness

例句

  1. Display books of the Gothic period in particular had very elaborate decorated borders of foliate patterns, often with small drolleries .
  2. But his drolleries served sometimes to hide, more often to express, a soldierly genius, the effect of which the Russian army did not soon outgrow.
  3. A Gothic page might contain several areas and types of decoration: a miniature in a frame, a historiated initial beginning a passage of text, and a border with drolleries .
  4. In fact most of these had specific terms in Dutch, but there was no overall Dutch term equivalent to "genre painting" – until the late 18th century the English often called them " drolleries ".
  5. Artists began to give the tiny faces of the figures in grotesque decorations strange caricatured expressions, in a direct continuation of the medieval traditions of the drolleries in the border decorations or initials in illuminated manuscripts.