fescennine
adjective
scurrilous; licentious; obscene.
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Fescennineadjectivescurrilous or obscene
fescennine
American
[fes-uh-nahyn, -nin]
/ ˈfɛs əˌnaɪn, -nɪn /
adjective
Fescennine
British
/ ˈfɛsɪˌnaɪn /
adjective
Etymology
Origin of fescennine
1595–1605; < Latin Fescennīnus of, belonging to Fescennia, a town in Etruria noted for jesting and scurrilous verse; see -ine 1
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From Suckling we should have had a bantering playfulness, or a fescennine gaiety, equally unsuited to the subject.
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
Here rang out the joyous conversation, interspersed with the Latin epithalamium of some impromptu poet, or the fescennine verses of a German minnesinger.
From Peter the Priest by Jókai, Mór
He is the Turkish "Punch," and his pleasantries may remind the traveller of what he has read concerning the Mines and Fescennine performances of the Romans.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Nor is there any analogy between the religious hymns, or the Fescennine verses of Italy, and the modern ballad.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
The Fescennine raillery long retained traces of this original character.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
The original Fescennine verse appears, from the testimony of Horace, to have been in metrical dialogue.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
His mind cast about, not for ways of excusing Sally—the idea!—but of whitewashing his mother, without seeming to suggest that her own mind had anything Fescennine about it.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
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