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Definition of Ribaudry
1. n. Ribaldry.
Definition of Ribaudry
1. Noun. (obsolete form of ribaldry) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ribaudry
1. coarse jesting [n RIBAUDRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribaudry
Literary usage of Ribaudry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1847)
"... as the word is spelled by Spenser, means a jest or sport; from the French Bourde.
" Of old adventures that fell white, And some of Gourdes and ribaudry. ..."
2. The Camden Miscellany by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain) (1875)
"... with a word of blasphemy, with a word of ribaudry, with a manifest lye, and
such talke or dedes as are contrary to the laws of God and the holye ..."
3. History of English Poetry from the 12th to the Close of the 16th Century by Charles Dudley Warner, Thomas Warton, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... is not worth an hawe: But tales are loued, ground of ribaudry, And many are
fo blinded with their foly, ..."
4. The Popular Ballad by Francis Barton Gummere (1907)
"... ribaudry." If there is any one line of the song worse than the rest, says
Chettle, "that with a double repetition is ..."
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