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Railleur

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Rail`leur´    (rå`lyẽr´ or rå`yẽr´)
n.1.A banterer; a jester; a mocker.
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Genette, 1982, cites Dumarsais's 1729 treatise entitled Tropes in order to define parody as a poem devised in imitation of another, in which the author "detourne dans un sens railleur des vers qu'un autte a faits dans une vue differente.
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