Goliardery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards. uncountable

    "The Goliards became a kind of monkish rhapsodists , the companions and rivals of the Jongleurs ( the reciters of the merry and licentious fabliaux ) ; Goliardery was a recognised kind of mediæval poetry"

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"The Goliards became a kind of monkish rhapsodists , the companions and rivals of the Jongleurs ( the reciters of the merry and licentious fabliaux ) ; Goliardery was a recognised kind of mediæval poetry"

Etymology

From Goliard + -ery.

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