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What does raillery mean?

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Poussin studied nature with a minuteness that often exposed him to raillery.
Out came a sovereign smile of humour, sweet raillery, and condonation blended, instant on her investigation of his eyes.
The raillery of the two main characters lacks any real emotional context.
Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery.
Per favour of the Barsac, however, Florence ventured to try what a little raillery might do.
Passions ran high as raillery at the religious orders, and attacks on collaborationist elites found expression in personal correspondence and in the press.

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