The 2,188 occurrences of buffoon
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The Mischievous Dog The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail The Boy and the Nettles The Man and His Two Sweethearts The Astronomer The Wolves and the Sheep The Old Woman and the Physician The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle The Charger and the Miller The Fox and the Monkey The Horse and His Rider The Belly and the Members The Vine and the Goat Jupiter and the Monkey The Widow and Her Little Maidens The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf The Cat and the Birds The Kid and the Wolf The Ox and the Frog The Shepherd and the Wolf The Father and His Two Daughters The Farmer and His Sons The Crab and Its Mother The Heifer and the Ox The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of Justice The Thief and His Mother The Old Man and Death The Fir-Tree and the Bramble The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk The Man Bitten by a Dog The Two Pots The Wolf and the Sheep The Aethiop The Fisherman and His Nets The Huntsman and the Fisherman The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar The Fox and the Crow The Two Dogs The Stag in the Ox-Stall The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons The Widow and the Sheep The Wild Ass and the Lion The Eagle and the Arrow The Sick Kite The Lion and the Dolphin The Lion and the Boar The One-Eyed Doe The Shepherd and the Sea The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion The Mice and the Weasels The Mice in Council The Wolf and the Housedog The Rivers and the Sea The Playful Ass The Three Tradesmen The Master and His Dogs The Wolf and the Shepherds The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat The Ass Carrying the Image The Two Travelers and the Axe The Old Lion The Old Hound The Bee and Jupiter The Milk-Woman and Her Pail The Seaside Travelers The Brazier and His Dog The Ass and His Shadow The Ass and His Masters The Oak and the Reeds The Fisherman and the Little Fish The Hunter and the Woodman The Wild Boar and the Fox The Lion in a Farmyard Mercury and the Sculptor The Swan and the Goose The Swollen Fox The Fox and the Woodcutter The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock The Monkey and the Fishermen The Flea and the Wrestler The Two Frogs The Cat and the Mice The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox The Doe and the Lion The Farmer and the Fox The Seagull and the Kite The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury The Mouse and the Bull The Lion and the Hare The Peasant and the Eagle The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter The Bull and the Goat The Dancing Monkeys The Fox and the Leopard The Monkeys and Their Mother The Oaks and Jupiter The Hare and the Hound The Traveler and Fortune The Bald Knight The Shepherd and the Dog The Lamp The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass The Bull, the Lioness, and the Wild-Boar Hunter The Oak and the Woodcutters The Hen and the Golden Eggs The Ass and the Frogs Men often bear little grievances better than large The Crow and the Raven The Trees and the Axe The Crab and the Fox The Woman and Her Hen The Ass and the Old Shepherd The Kites and the Swans The Wolves and the Sheepdogs The Hares and the Foxes The Bowman and Lion The Camel The Wasp and the Snake The Dog and the Hare The Bull and the Calf The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep The Peacock and the Crane The Fox and the Hedgehog The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow The Thief and the Innkeeper The Mule The Hart and the Vine The Serpent and the Eagle The Crow and the Pitcher The Two Frogs The Wolf and the Fox The Walnut-Tree The Gnat and the Lion The Monkey and the Dolphin The Jackdaw and the Doves The Horse and the Stag The Kid and the Wolf The Prophet The Fox and the Monkey The Thief and the Housedog The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog The Apes and the Two Travelers The Wolf and the Shepherd The Hares and the Lions The Lark and Her Young Ones The Fox and the Lion The Weasel and the Mice The Boy Bathing The Ass and the Wolf The Seller of Images The Fox and the Grapes The Man and His Wife The Peacock and Juno The Hawk and the Nightingale The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox The Wolf and the Goat The Lion and the Bull The Goat and the Ass The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse The Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape The Fly and the Draught-Mule The Fishermen The Lion and the Three Bulls The Fowler and the Viper The Horse and the Ass The Fox and the Mask The Geese and the Cranes The Blind Man and the Whelp The Dogs and the Fox The Cobbler Turned Doctor The Wolf and the Horse The Brother and the Sister The Wasps, the Partridges, and the Farmer The Crow and Mercury The North Wind and the Sun The Two Men Who Were Enemies The Gamecocks and the Partridge The Quack Frog The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox The Dog's House The Wolf and the Lion The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat The Spendthrift and the Swallow The Fox and the Lion The Owl and the Birds The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner The Ass in the Lion's Skin The Sparrow and the Hare The Flea and the Ox The Goods and the Ills The Dove and the Crow Mercury and the Workmen The Eagle and the Jackdaw The Fox and the Crane Jupiter, Neptune, Minerva, and Momus The Eagle and the Fox The Man and the Satyr The Ass and His Purchaser The Two Bags The Stag at the Pool The Jackdaw and the Fox The Lark Burying Her Father The Gnat and the Bull The Bitch and Her Whelps The Dogs and the Hides The Shepherd and the Sheep The Grasshopper and the Owl The Monkey and the Camel The Peasant and the Apple-Tree The Two Soldiers and the Robber The Trees Under the Protection of the Gods The Mother and the Wolf The Ass and the Horse Truth and the Traveler The Manslayer The Lion and the Fox The Lion and the Eagle The Hen and the Swallow The Buffoon and the Countryman The Crow and the Serpent The Hunter and the Horseman The King's Son and the Painted Lion The Cat and Venus The She-Goats and Their Beards The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass The Crow and the Sheep The Fox and the Bramble The Wolf and the Lion The Dog and the Oyster The Ant and the Dove The Partridge and the Fowler The Flea and the Man The Thieves and the Cock The Dog and the Cook The Travelers and the Plane-Tree The Hares and the Frogs The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant The Lamb and the Wolf The Rich Man and the Tanner The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea The Mules and the Robbers The Viper and the File The Lion and the Shepherd The Camel and Jupiter The Panther and the Shepherds The Ass and the Charger The Eagle and His Captor The Bald Man and the Fly The Olive-Tree and the Fig-Tree The Eagle and the Kite The Ass and His Driver The Thrush and the Fowler The Rose and the Amaranth The Frogs' Complaint Against the Sun LIFE OF AESOP PREFACE FOOTNOTES AESOP'S FABLES The Wolf And The Lamb WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him.
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The Buffoon and the Countryman A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the people, and gave a public notice that he would handsomely reward any person who invented a new amusement for the occasion.
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Among them came a Buffoon well known among the populace for his jokes, and said that he had a kind of entertainment which had never been brought out on any stage before.
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The Buffoon appeared alone upon the platform, without any apparatus or confederates, and the very sense of expectation caused an intense silence.
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The Buffoon grunted and squeaked away first, and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and cheers of the spectators.
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The Crowd, however, cried out with one consent that the Buffoon had given a far more exact imitation, and clamored for the Countryman to be kicked out of the theater.
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ALPHABETIZED TITLES Goto Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W The Ant and the Dove The Ants and the Grasshopper The Apes and the Two Travelers The Ass and His Driver The Ass and the Horse The Ass And The Grasshopper The Ass and the Lapdog The Ass and His Masters The Ass and His Shadow The Ass and the Charger The Ass and the Frogs The Ass Carrying the Image The Ass in the Lion's Skin The Ass and the Wolf The Ass and the Mule The Ass and the Old Shepherd The Ass and His Purchaser The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion The Astronomer The Bald Knight The Bald Man and the Fly The Bat And The Weasels The Bear and the Fox The Bear and the Two Travelers The Bee and Jupiter The Belly and the Members The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat The Bitch and Her Whelps The Blind Man and the Whelp The Boasting Traveler The Bowman and Lion The Boy and the Nettles The Boy Hunting Locusts The Boy Bathing The Boy and the Filberts The Boys and the Frogs The Brazier and His Dog The Brother and the Sister The Buffoon and the Countryman The Bull and the Goat The Bull and the Calf The Bull, the Lioness, and the Wild-Boar Hunter The Camel The Camel and Jupiter The Cat and the Birds The Cat and Venus The Cat and the Cock The Cat and the Mice The Charcoal-Burner And The Fuller The Charger and the Miller The Cobbler Turned Doctor The Cock and the Jewel The Crab and Its Mother The Crab and the Fox The Crow and the Serpent The Crow and Mercury The Crow and the Raven The Crow and the Sheep The Crow and the Pitcher The Dancing Monkeys The Doe and the Lion The Dog in the Manger The Dog and the Cook The Dog and the Oyster The Dog and the Shadow The Dog and the Hare The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox The Dogs and the Hides The Dogs and the Fox The Dog's House The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat The Dove and the Crow The Eagle and the Kite The Eagle and His Captor The Eagle and the Fox The Eagle and the Jackdaw The Eagle and the Arrow The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow The Farmer and the Stork The Farmer and His Sons The Farmer and the Cranes The Farmer and the Snake The Farmer and the Fox The Father And His Sons The Father and His Two Daughters The Fawn and His Mother The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle The Fir-Tree and the Bramble The Fisherman and the Little Fish The Fisherman and His Nets The Fisherman Piping The Fishermen The Flea and the Ox The Flea and the Man The Flea and the Wrestler The Flies and the Honey-Pot The Fly and the Draught-Mule The Fowler and the Viper The Fox and the Bramble The Fox and the Crane The Fox and the Lion The Fox and the Monkey The Fox and the Grapes The Fox and the Woodcutter The Fox and the Leopard The Fox and the Crow The Fox and the Monkey The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail The Fox and the Mask The Fox and the Hedgehog The Fox and the Lion The Fox and the Goat Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed.
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pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo[obs3], buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello[obs3]; pulcinello[obs3], pulcinella[obs3]; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante[obs3], general utility; super, supernumerary.
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buffoon, farceur[French], merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster[obs3], harlequin, punch, pulcinella[obs3], scaramouch[obs3], clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass [coll.
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original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c. (jester) 844; pantomimist &c. (actor) 599. schlemiel.
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AESOP'S FABLES (82 Fables) From The PaperLess Readers Club, Houston (713) 977-9505 (BBS) Voice/Fax (713) 977-1719 1-21 22-42 The Cock and the Pearl The Frog and the Ox The Wolf and the Lamb Androcles The Dog and the Shadow The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts The Lion's Share The Hart and the Hunter The Wolf and the Crane The Serpent and the File The Man and the Serpent The Man and the Wood The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse The Dog and the Wolf The Fox and the Crow The Belly and the Members The Sick Lion The Hart in the Ox-Stall The Ass and the Lapdog The Fox and the Grapes The Lion and the Mouse The Horse, Hunter, and Stag The Swallow and the Other Birds The Peacock and Juno The Frogs Desiring a King The Fox and the Lion The Mountains in Labour The Lion and the Statue The Hares and the Frogs The Ant and the Grasshopper The Wolf and the Kid The Tree and the Reed The Woodman and the Serpent The Fox and the Cat The Bald Man and the Fly The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Fox and the Stork The Dog in the Manger The Fox and the Mask The Man and the Wooden God The Jay and the Peacock The Fisher 43-62 63-82 The Shepherd's Boy The Miser and His Gold The Young Thief and His Mother The Fox and the Mosquitoes The Man and His Two Wives The Fox Without a Tail The Nurse and the Wolf The One-Eyed Doe The Tortoise and the Birds Belling the Cat The Two Crabs The Hare and the Tortoise The Ass in the Lion's Skin The Old Man and Death The Two Fellows and the Bear The Hare With Many Friends The Two Pots The Lion in Love The Four Oxen and the Lion The Bundle of Sticks The Fisher and the Little Fish The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts Avaricious and Envious The Ass's Brains The Crow and the Pitcher The Eagle and the Arrow The Man and the Satyr The Milkmaid and Her Pail The Goose With the Golden Eggs The Cat-Maiden The Labourer and the Nightingale The Horse and the Ass The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner The Wind and the Sun The Buffoon and the Countryman Hercules and the Waggoner The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey The Fox and the Goat Aesop's Fables The Cock and the Pearl A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.
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The Buffoon and the Countryman At a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the people laugh by imitating the cries of various animals.
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And populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons.
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There are jests which you would be ashamed to make yourself, and yet on the comic stage, or indeed in private, when you hear them, you are greatly amused by them, and are not at all disgusted at their unseemliness;--the case of pity is repeated;--there is a principle in human nature which is disposed to raise a laugh, and this which you once restrained by reason, because you were afraid of being thought a buffoon, is now let out again; and having stimulated the risible faculty at the theatre, you are betrayed unconsciously to yourself into playing the comic poet at home.
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Nature had made him a buffoon.
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I'm a buffoon.
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But Stroeve, the unconquerable buffoon, had a love and an understanding of beauty which were as honest and sincere as was his own sincere and honest soul.
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A buffoon or merryÏandrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
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To make appear like a buffoon.
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), n. [F., buffoon.]
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See Buffoon.]
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Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon] 1.
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See Buffoon.]
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bouffer to puff out, because the buffoons puffed out their cheeks for the amusement of the spectators.
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Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.
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½Buffoon stories.¸ Macaulay.
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To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances.
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To act the part of a buffoon.
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The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
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Like a buffoon; consisting in low?jests or gestures.
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), n. The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
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Oh, I am Fate's buffoon!
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How I have wept over the pathos of my heroines, and laughed at the comicalities of my buffoons!
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But, indeed, had I lived in the Middle Ages (I am heartily glad that I did not) I should have been an eremite myself--if I had not been a professed buffoon, that is.
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'I have been a buffoon, of course,' observed Jean-Marie.
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There was Tip Smith, destined by his freckles and red hair to be the buffoon in all our games, though he walked like a timid little old man and had a funny, cracked laugh.
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That would be beautiful, sir; that would be royal; no one but a buffoon could fail to understand it.
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"I will be wife to no buffoon; to no clumsy old clown; to no debauched, degraded parody of a man.
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Of all injured vanities, that of the reproved buffoon is the most savage; and when grave issues are involved, these petty stabs become unbearable.
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Great people of yore, kings and queens, buffoons and grave ambassadors, played their stately farce for centuries in Holyrood.
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"Make a blooming buffoon of myself," he mumbled tragically.
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I'm a buffoon.--But haven't we had a great afternoon?" he added, with a sudden grin.
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"Then you WOULD be a buffoon."
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He was not quite the same boyish, hairbrained fellow who had made "a buffoon of himself" in the Chinese restaurant, three months before.
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He would give to a painted harlot a thousand pounds for a loathsome embrace, and to a player or buffoon a hundred for a trumpery pun, but would refuse a penny to the widow or orphan of an old Royalist soldier.
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I was longing for it all and sighing because it wasn't back at home, safe, so that, as the buffoon says, I could eat my bread dipped in sardines.
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Pierrot, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Clown, Merry-Andrew, Buffoon-- Touchstone and Triboulet--all of the tribe.-- Dancer and jester and singer and scribe.
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Nero fiddled while Rome burned; but Jones indulges in the levity of the buffoon while consigning millions of human beings to Hell.
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The dancer and the buffoon received the homage and the adoration which in the golden age of Greece under the reign of Pericles only scholars, philosophers and artists received.
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Does he make no distinction between the vaudeville, continuous performance buffoons and the thousands who are "not stars," but working well and perhaps hoping?
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From that well kept and wearisome prostitute and buffoon, Chauncey Depew, down to the smallest operator of a bucket-shop, they are all tarred with the same brush--things in trousers who would sell their souls for coin.
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The dreamer of dreams and the Shorter Catechist, strangely united together, were here directly at odds with the creative power, and crossed and misdirected it, and the casuist came in and manoeuvred the limelight--all too like the old devil of the mediaeval drama, who was made only to be laughed at and taken lightly, a buffoon and a laughing-stock indeed.
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Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas.
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XX "And even, as here above, the raven, daw, Vulture, and divers other birds of air, All from the turbid water seek to draw The names, which in their sight appear most fair; Even thus below, pimps, flatterers, men of straw, Buffoons, informers, minions, all who there Flourish in courts, and in far better guise And better odour, than the good and wise; XXI "And by the crowd are gentle courtiers hight, Because they imitate the ass and swine: When the just Parcae or (to speak aright) Venus and Bacchus cut their master's twine, -- These base and sluggish dullards, whom I cite -- Born but to blow themselves with bread and wine, In their vile mouths awhile such names convey, Then drop the load, which is Oblivion's prey.
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On the 23rd a famous buffoon of the playhouse will die a ridiculous death, suitable to his vocation.
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What Momus was of old to Jove The same harlequin is now; The former was buffoon above, The latter is a Punch below.
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This great town is usually provided with some player, mimic, or buffoon, who hath a general reception at the good tables; familiar and domestic with persons of the first quality, and usually sent for at every meeting to divert the company, against which I have no objection.
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There you may see him who was worthy to be lawgiver to the lawgiver of the world and to hold empire over its emperor, made the slave of vile buffoons by the most unrighteous laws of war.
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But Mackay was miles from publishing his weakness to the world; laid the blame of his failure on corrupt masters and a corrupt State policy; and after he had been one night overtaken and had played the buffoon in his cups, sternly, though not without tact, suppressed all reference to his escapade.
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The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
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-- Court fool , a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement.
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One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
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To jest; to play the buffoon.
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One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
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-- To play the fool , to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part.
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goliart glutton, buffoon, riotous student, Goliard, LL.
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A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.
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), n. A buffoon.
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No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh.
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A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
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), n. A merry- andrew; a buffoon.
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), n. A jester; a buffoon.
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Sw. ganta to play the buffoon, romp, jest; perh.
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A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
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maskharat buffoon, fool, pleasantry, anything ridiculous or mirthful, fr.
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Mer"ry-an"drew (-ăn"dr&udd;), n. One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.
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Mim"ic , n. One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.
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A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes.
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A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
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Pleas"ant , n. A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
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The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
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A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked.
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A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.
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scurra a *buffoon, jester: cf.
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Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.
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Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
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Quite a Buffoon, quite!'
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Libel your father, and your dam buffoon, The noblest matrons of the isle lampoon, Whilst Aretine and 's bodies you dispute, And in your sheets your sister prostitute.
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From his ill-worded narration, it should seem that the prince's buffoon having accidentally entered the tent, and awakened the slumbering monarch, the fear of punishment urged him to persuade the disaffected soldiers to commit the murder.]
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As long as the fame of Julian was doubtful, the buffoons of the palace, who were skilled in the language of satire, tried the efficacy of those arts which they had so often practised with success.
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At the supper, a more familiar repast, buffoons and pantomimes are sometimes introduced, to divert, not to offend, the company, by their ridiculous wit: but female singers, and the soft, effeminate modes of music, are severely banished, and such martial tunes as animate the soul to deeds of valor are alone grateful to the ear of Theodoric.
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She neither danced, nor sung, nor played on the flute; her skill was confined to the pantomime arts; she excelled in buffoon characters, and as often as the comedian swelled her cheeks, and complained with a ridiculous tone and gesture of the blows that were inflicted, the whole theatre of Constantinople resounded with laughter and applause.
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A buffoon of the court was invested in the robes of the patriarch: his twelve metropolitans, among whom the emperor was ranked, assumed their ecclesiastical garments: they used or abused the sacred vessels of the altar; and in their bacchanalian feasts, the holy communion was administered in a nauseous compound of vinegar and mustard.
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On the day of a solemn festival, the emperor, with his bishops or buffoons, rode on asses through the streets, encountered the true patriarch at the head of his clergy; and by their licentious shouts and obscene gestures, disordered the gravity of the Christian procession.
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Isaac slept on the throne, and was awakened only by the sound of pleasure: his vacant hours were amused by comedians and buffoons, and even to these buffoons the emperor was an object of contempt: his feasts and buildings exceeded the examples of royal luxury: the number of his eunuchs and domestics amounted to twenty thousand; and a daily sum of four thousand pounds of silver would swell to four millions sterling the annual expense of his household and table.
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His ministers trembled in silence: but an Æthiopian buffoon presumed to insinuate the true cause of the evil; and future venality was left without excuse, by annexing an adequate salary to the office of cadhi.
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The supine ignorance of the nobles was incapable of discerning the serious tendency of such representations: they might sometimes chastise with words and blows the plebeian reformer; but he was often suffered in the Colonna palace to amuse the company with his threats and predictions; and the modern Brutus 25 was concealed under the mask of folly and the character of a buffoon.
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