| 单词 | droll painting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdroll painting 1. Intentionally facetious, amusing, comical, funny. †droll painting, caricature; droll painter, caricaturist. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting bourdfula1425 pleasant1530 facete1600 joculary1605 merrya1616 jocundary1618 lepidc1619 droll1623 humorousa1652 drollerical1656 humoursome1656 drollish1674 ludicrous1687 humorific1819 jestful1831 humoristica1834 1623 King James VI & I in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 45 I heartily thank thee for thy kind droll letter. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. ii. 51 Landschape-painting..being ever preferred to single portraits, to pieces of still-life, to droll figures. 1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 26 Daniel Boon, Of the same country, a droll painter. 1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. x. 202 The droll inventions of Hogarth. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. xii. 82 He was..a droll and joyous humourist. 1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 230 Everybody has a perception of what is droll and ludicrous. < as lemmas |
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