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▪ I. ‖ sotie1|sɔti| Also 4 sotye, 5 sottye, 9 sottie. [OF. sotie, sottie (mod.F. sotie in sense 2), f. sot sot a.] †1. Foolishness, folly. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. I. 60 Than haddest thou the gates stoke Fro such Sotie as comth to winne Thin hertes wit. Ibid. II. 209 The grete covoitise Of sotie and of fol emprise. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 360/1 Whan he was yonge he was full of many sottyes and folyes. 2. A species of broad satirical farce, current in France in the 15th and 16th centuries.
1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 133 The sotties were more farcical than farce. 1837Penny Cycl. IX. 417/2 Their most celebrated sotie, entitled ‘The Abuse of the World’,..is attributed to the historian Bouchet. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 645/1 These performances..were soon rivalled by the more profane performances of the moralities, the farces, and the soties. ▪ II. † sotie2 Obs.—1 [ad. Sp. azotea, Pg. açotea.] A terrace or flat roof.
1648Gage West Ind. 47 Cortez desired Montezuma to goe up into the Sotie of his house..and to command his subjects to cease from their heat and fury. |