Crossword-Solution: FESCENNINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fescennine | a. | Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. |
| Fescennine | n. | A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia. |
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| Obscene | 65 answers |
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Sentences with FESCENNINE (5)
From Suckling we should have had a bantering playfulness, or a fescennine gaiety, equally unsuited to the subject.
The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.
And yet what a glorious Haggis it is—the more emphatically rustic and even Fescennine part of your verse! We have had many a rural bard since Theocritus “watched the visionary flocks,” but you are the only one of them all who has spoken the sincere Doric.
Chance and jollity first found out those verses which they called Saturnian and Fescennine; or rather human nature, which is inclined to poetry, first produced them rude and barbarous and unpolished, as all other operations of the soul are in their beginnings before they are cultivated with art and study.
Perhaps they might be used in the solemn part of their ceremonies; and the Fescennine, which were invented after them, in their afternoons’ debauchery, because they were scoffing and obscene.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).