Fescennine

Word FESCENNINE
Character 10
Hyphenation fes cen nine
Pronunciations /ˈfɛsənʌɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Fescennine"

What do we mean by fescennine?

Licentious; obscene. adjective

Pertaining to or characteristic of ancient Fescenniain Italy: specifically applied to a class of verses. See phrase below.

A song of licentious or scurrilous character, popular in ancient Italy. noun

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. adjective

Obscene or scurrilous. adjective

Obscene or scurrilous.

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The word "fescennine" in example sentences

Ali Shar (vol.iv. 187) shows at her sale the impudence of Miriam the Girdle-girl and in bed the fescennine device of the Lady Budur. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nowas makes his appearance the fun becomes fescennine and milesian. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Most frequently, the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain, for a time, a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine verses in a particular order. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Here rang out the joyous conversation, interspersed with the Latin epithalamium of some impromptu poet, or the fescennine verses of a German minnesinger. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)

Finally, wherever the honest and independent old debauchee Abu Nowas makes his appearance the fun becomes fescennine and milesian. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

( "Smaragdine") in Ali Shar (vol.iv. 187) shows at her sale the impudence of Miriam the Girdle-girl and in bed the fescennine device of the Lady Budur. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Most frequently the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain for a time a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine verses in a particular order. ❋ Unknown (1815)

These are the things that put the 'Great' in Britain, and just a fraction of the fescennine cast of this unexpectedly brilliant point-and-click adventure from Northern Irish animation studio Straandlooper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And just a few words later we'll be out and about in paragraph seven itself to find out just what all the fuss, the hysteria and the frat-boy whooping is about in the company of Great Britain's very own me, with a little help from gold medal adjective, fescennine. ❋ Harry Pearson (2010)

So, without further ado, let's take a look back right now at what, by any stretch of somebody's imagination has been a wonderfully frenetic, if not-quite as fescennine as we might have hoped, column, starting with that incredible opening sentence which now seems as if it occurred - oh my goodness! ❋ Harry Pearson (2010)

a bantering playfulness, or a fescennine gaiety, equally unsuited to the subject. ❋ Richard Lovelace (1637)

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