Definitions for sotie

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sotie so·tie

Spelling: [soh-tee]

IPA: /soʊˈti/

Sotie is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in sotie (eiost).

Definitions for sotie

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.

Origin of sotie

1785-95; French, Middle French: literally, foolishness, equivalent to sot fool + -ie -y³

Examples for sotie

This was followed by the sotie itself; then followed the morality, and lastly a farce.

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.