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
Then he departed, and as he went he broke into deep-throated, Homeric laughter, and I—I understood: he was mocking Death.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 by Various
Someone cried, "They're off!" and a murmur grew and rolled nearer—rising, as it approached, from a murmur into great waves—waves of Homeric laughter.
From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
He threw back his head in a roar of Homeric laughter.
From Man Size by Raine, William MacLeod
The procession of human effort becomes a spectacle at sight of which Homeric laughter may sometimes be permissible, but tears never.
From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Dawson, Coningsby
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