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noun

Jester n.

A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. "This... was Yorick's skull, the king's jester." "Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear."

A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. "He ambled up and down With shallow jesters."

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Etymology of 'Jester'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jester" Quotes from Famous Books

... to herd with the artificial nobility of an hereditary peerage. We also take the opportunity of regretting that Tennyson ever became Poet Laureate. The court poet should not survive the court dwarf and the court jester. It is painful to see a great writer grinding out professional odes, and bestowing the excrements of his genius on royal nonentities. The preposterous office of Poet Laureate should now be abolished. No poet should write for a clique or a coterie; he ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote

... caste of story-tellers and buffoons. The name is derived from the Sanskrit Bhanda, a jester, and the caste are also known as Naqqal or actor. Only a trifling number of Bhands are shown by the census as belonging to the Central Provinces. Mr. Crooke remarks: "The Bhand is sometimes employed in the courts of Rajas and native gentlemen ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell

... a general smile of incredulity among the warriors, for Wapoota was well known to be a time-server: nevertheless they were mistaken, for the jester was ...

— The Madman and the Pirate • R.M. Ballantyne

... seldom the most imperturbable good-nature. Sometimes he fell into a true artistic zeal, forgot the dignity of the reformer, and pinched like a German peasant boy, even like a malicious goblin. What blows he gave to all his opponents, now with a club, wielded by an angry giant, now with a jester's bauble! He liked to twist their names into ridiculous forms, and thus they lived in Wittenberg circles as beasts, or as fools. Eck became Dr. Geck; Murner was adorned with the head and claws of ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... from the pressure of debt, discreet as a tomb out of which nought issues to contradict the epitaph intended for the passer's eye, bold and fearless when soliciting, good-natured and witty in all acceptations of the word, a timely jester, full of tact, knowing how to compromise others by a glance or a nudge, shrinking from no mudhole, but gracefully leaping it, intrepid Voltairean, yet punctual at mass if a fashionable company could be met ...

— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac

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