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Buffoons, idiots and rogues could bring down a president.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2020

Buffoons like Colbert have managed to appear clever, but on closer inspection there's little there, there....

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017

Buffoons, set to a theme from Rimsky Korsakov's The Snow Maiden, is a robust, circus-like satire on Old Russia, with a drunken boyar, a devil wielding a pitchfork and a troupe of gymnastic, gnomic clowns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buffoons That Dr. Bellini was a man of learning and attainments is obvious enough in that he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buffoons had a share in the great "moralities," although they did not have a rôle in the action.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham