Homeric laughter
Americannoun
noun
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The implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, perhaps, hardly agrees with the popular idea of the term "Homeric laughter."
From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Spence, Edward Fordham
In the next act we have Maître Pathelin at his fireside with his wife, to whom he relates his trick and its projected sequel, and who greets them with Homeric laughter.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
A prolonged burst of Homeric laughter drowned Polzunkov's words in guffaws.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The major bursts into Homeric laughter, in which Zdena, whose overstrained nerves dispose her for tears as well as laughter, joins.
From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Schubin, Ossip
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