sotie
or sot·tie
[ soh-tee ]
noun
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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How to use sotie in a sentence
The sotie was directly satirical, and only assumed the guise of folly as a stalking-horse for shooting wit.
The morality was the special property of the first, the sotie of the second.
This was followed by the sotie itself; then followed the morality, and lastly a farce.
A Short History of French Literature | George Saintsbury
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