Goliardic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Goliards, wandering medieval students who earned money by singing and reciting poetry. not-comparable

    "Minstrels and goliardic clerics - priests, monks and university students who dropped out, travelled all over Europe and composed loose or satirical works - had been and continued to be the creators of fabliaux and interludes."

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to a form of medieval lyric poetry that typically celebrated licentiousness and drinking. not-comparable

    "This basic structure was used as long as the medieval Latin lyric flourished; the goliardic poems of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries still retain it."

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"Minstrels and goliardic clerics - priests, monks and university students who dropped out, travelled all over Europe and composed loose or satirical works - had been and continued to be the creators of fabliaux and interludes."

Etymology

From Goliard + -ic.

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