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Six example sentences with ribald, each labelled with its topic.
The film gives the tavern scene to a cheerful ribald whose jokes make the knights wince and the audience laugh.
Movies
Chaucer puts a ribald among the pilgrims, and the polite characters spend the next tale pretending not to have listened.
Literature
Every dockside crew had its ribald, the singer nobody invited to weddings but everybody wanted on a long night watch.
Music
Court records from 1420 name a ribald fined for shouting rude verses at the market cross on feast days.
History
The painter gave the tavern's ribald a red nose and an open mouth mid-song while the other drinkers cover their ears.
Art
The pamphleteer was dismissed as a ribald, and his coarse rhymes about the council were burned in the square.
Politics
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