sotie

American  

[soh-tee] / soʊˈti /

Or sottie

noun

1. a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.

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Etymology

Origin of sotie

1785–95; < French, Middle French: literally, foolishness, equivalent to sot fool + -ie -y ³

Example Sentences

The morality was the special property of the first, the sotie of the second.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

The sotie was directly satirical, and only assumed the guise of folly as a stalking-horse for shooting wit.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

The classes of later secular drama may be thus divided,—the monologue, the farce, the morality, the sotie, the profane mystery.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George