buffoon

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He belongs to the buffoon class, and is distinguished by his mandoline and ballad-singing.

Figure to yourself this eager little chap: high-keyed, timid, fervid: something of a buffoon, always a victim of his perceptions.

In short, he entirely sacrificed every appearance of the warrior to the masquerade of a buffoon.

In an instant the man who had been masquerading as a buffoon was again the commanding officer, stern and alert.

In the social display of wit and humour, there is a marked mean between the buffoon and the dullard or prig.

I think you make a better Quaker boy than you did a crazy man last time, or buffoon and tumbler the first one.

THE RANGERSD. P. THOMPSON

Urbain, watching the grotesque disguise of the buffoon, conceived a plan.

THE BARBER OF PARISCHARLES PAUL DE KOCK

Bishop Burnet calls Marvell “a droll,” Parker, who was to be a bishop, calls him “a buffoon.”

ANDREW MARVELLAUGUSTINE BIRRELL

In publick, a serious and solemn hypocrite; in private, a ridiculous and lewd buffoon.

Quintus calls Paris a buffoon out of contempt, for the profession of “player” was regarded by the ancient Romans as degrading.

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