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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
jester
n 1: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or
nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley
fool]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Jester \Jest"er\, n. [Cf. Gestour.]
1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
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This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
--Shak.
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Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear.
--Longfellow.
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2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light
and amusing talk.
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He ambled up and down
With shallow jesters. --Shak.
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3. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) |
JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose
business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and
utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The
king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some
centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were
sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of
all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and
romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise
and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the
court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same
jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the
patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears.
The widow-queen of Portugal
Had an audacious jester
Who entered the confessional
Disguised, and there confessed her.
"Father," she said, "thine ear bend down --
My sins are more than scarlet:
I love my fool -- blaspheming clown,
And common, base-born varlet."
"Daughter," the mimic priest replied,
"That sin, indeed, is awful:
The church's pardon is denied
To love that is unlawful.
"But since thy stubborn heart will be
For him forever pleading,
Thou'dst better make him, by decree,
A man of birth and breeding."
She made the fool a duke, in hope
With Heaven's taboo to palter;
Then told a priest, who told the Pope,
Who damned her from the altar!
Barel Dort
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Thesaurus Results for Jester:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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