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court jester,
a person who entertains with buffoonery and an often caustic wit. In all countries from ancient times and extending into the 18th cent., mental and physical deformity provided amusement. Attached to noble and royal courts were dwarfs, cripples, idiots, albinos, and freaks. The medieval court fool was seldom mentally deficient. For the freedom to indulge in satire, tricks, and repartee, many men of keen insight and caustic wit obtained powerful patronage by assuming the role of fool. This role was played in the courts of the East, in ancient Greece and Rome, and in the court of Montezuma. The clownclown,
a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor that is wordless or not as self-consciously verbal as the traditional fool or jester.
..... Click the link for more information. or jester was common in Elizabethan drama (e.g., the Fool in King Lear), and by donning the fool's garb the actor gained the freedom of the fool. His costume, which was hung with bells, usually consisted of a varicolored coat, tight breeches with legs of different colors—occasionally a long petticoat was worn—and a bauble (mock scepter) and a cap which fitted close to the head or fell over the shoulders in the form of asses' ears. Till Eulenspiegel and Robin Goodfellow are mythical fools.
See B. Swain, Fools and Folly (1932); E. Welsford, The Fool (1936, repr. 1961); S. Billington, A Social History of the Fool (1984).
(formerly) a professional jester living in a royal or noble household
Fool's Lisp. A small Scheme interpreter.
ftp://scam.berkeley.edu/src/local/fools.tar.Z.
activity sequence method
Activity, Thermodynamic
Activity-Recording Apparatus
actol
Actors Studio, The
Acts of Agencies of State Authority
Acts of Bodies of State Administration
actual argument
actual calculated landing time
actual cubic feet per minute
actual decimal point
Actual Division of a Sentence
actual elevation
actual exhaust velocity
actual horsepower
actual instruction
actual key
actual motion
actual relative movement
actual runway length
actual start of construction
actual time of interception
Acts of the Parliaments
Acts of Uniformity
acts on behalf
Acts Software Sustainment and Evaluation Team
acts the maggot
acts upon
acts, practice
ACTS/MAGIC/AAINET
ACTSEA
ACTSEB
ACTSG
ACTSIP
ACTSS
ACTSSM
ACTSUS
ACTTA
ACTTLC
ACTTS
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court jester,
a person who entertains with buffoonery and an often caustic wit. In all countries from ancient times and extending into the 18th cent., mental and physical deformity provided amusement. Attached to noble and royal courts were dwarfs, cripples, idiots, albinos, and freaks. The medieval court fool was seldom mentally deficient. For the freedom to indulge in satire, tricks, and repartee, many men of keen insight and caustic wit obtained powerful patronage by assuming the role of fool. This role was played in the courts of the East, in ancient Greece and Rome, and in the court of Montezuma. The clownclown,
a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor that is wordless or not as self-consciously verbal as the traditional fool or jester.
..... Click the link for more information. or jester was common in Elizabethan drama (e.g., the Fool in King Lear), and by donning the fool's garb the actor gained the freedom of the fool. His costume, which was hun
g with bells, usually consisted of a varicolored coat, tight breeches with legs of different colors—occasionally a long petticoat was worn—and a bauble (mock scepter) and a cap which fitted close to the head or fell over the shoulders in the form of asses' ears. Till Eulenspiegel and Robin Goodfellow are mythical fools.
See B. Swain, Fools and Folly (1932); E. Welsford, The Fool (1936, repr. 1961); S. Billington, A Social History of the Fool (1984).
(formerly) a professional jester living in a royal or noble household
Fool's Lisp. A small Scheme interpreter.
ftp://scam.berkeley.edu/src/local/fools.tar.Z.
activity sequence method
Activity, Thermodynamic
Activity-Recording Apparatus
actol
Actors Studio, The
Acts of Agencies of State Authority
Acts of Bodies of State Administration
actual argument
actual calculated landing time
actual cubic feet per minute
actual decimal point
Actual Division of a Sentence
actual elevation
actual exhaust velocity
actual horsepower
actual instruction
actual key
actual motion
actual relative movement
actual runway length
actual start of construction
actual time of interception
Acts of the Parliaments
Acts of Uniformity
acts on behalf
Acts Software Sustainment and Evaluation Team
acts the maggot
acts upon
acts, practice
ACTS/MAGIC/AAINET
ACTSEA
ACTSEB
ACTSG
ACTSIP
ACTSS
ACTSSM
ACTSUS
ACTTA
ACTTLC
ACTTS