FOLLIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does follies mean? 

• FOLLIES (noun)
  The noun FOLLIES has 1 sense:

1. a revue with elaborate costuming

  Familiarity information: FOLLIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLLIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A revue with elaborate costuming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("follies" is a kind of...):

review; revue (a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "follies"):

Ziegfeld Follies (a series of extravagant revues produced by Flo Ziegfeld)

 Context examples 

And it is not merely in its follies, that they are well read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You knew me when, in spite of my follies, I was umble among them that was proud, and meek among them that was violent—you was violent to me yourself, Mr. Copperfield.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Is that all?" asked Jo, as Mrs. March looked silently at the downcast face of her pretty daughter, and could not find it in her heart to blame her little follies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My reconcilement to the Yahoo kind in general might not be so difficult, if they would be content with those vices and follies only which nature has entitled them to.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She had always been so trusting and so innocent, but now she became queer and suspicious, wanting to know where I had been and what I had been doing, and whom my letters were from, and what I had in my pockets, and a thousand such follies.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Emma grieved that she could not be more openly just to one important service which his better sense would have rendered her, to the advice which would have saved her from the worst of all her womanly follies—her wilful intimacy with Harriet Smith; but it was too tender a subject.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I have committed follies, gentlemen, said Uriah, looking round with a meek smile, and I ought to bear the consequences without repining.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)