etymology lesson

[festizio]

The word ribald was originally a noun and referred to a military unit found in French and Italian armies in the Middle Ages. Ribalds, led by their "king", were vagrants or other lower-class members of society, who fought with little or no clothing, and whose main objective seems to have been to expose themselves to the enemy in order to disgust or

Comments

[sisyphusiren]

Nice. Etymology and ribaldry are both freakin' sweet.

[fakegoth]

fascinating