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sotie

or sot·tie

[ soh-tee ]

noun

  1. a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sotie1

1785–95; < French, Middle French: literally, foolishness, equivalent to sot fool + -ie -y 3
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Example Sentences

The morality was the special property of the first, the sotie of the second.

The sotie was directly satirical, and only assumed the guise of folly as a stalking-horse for shooting wit.

Farcical interludes were interpolated in the mysteries themselves; short farces introduced and rendered palatable the moralities, while the sotie was itself but a variety of farce, and all the kinds were sometimes combined in a sort of tetralogy.

The Sotie is a class of much more idiosyncrasy.

The Sotie, at least in its purely political form, was, as might be expected, not very long lived.

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