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/dʒˈɛstər/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jester" Quotes from Famous Books

... onward! Though the jester deride And the hand of the pilot the helm drops in fear; Sail on to the West, till that shore is descried Which so clearly defined to thy mind ...

— Thirteen Chapters of American History - represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen - Historical Marine Paintings • Theodore Sutro

... the dregs of the river than she had ever been in the dregs of New York. She shuddered. Then, as so often, the sense of the grotesque thrust in, as out of place as jester in cap and bells at a bier—and she smiled sardonically. "Why," thought she, "in being squeamish about Freddie I'm showing that I'm more respectable than the respectable women. There's hardly one of them that doesn't swallow worse doses with less excuse or no excuse at all—and ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... in a jeering tone, the Puritan deigned no reply; but an answer was given for him by Archee, the court jester, who had managed in the confusion to creep up to ...

— The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth

... not know whether it be worth while to tell what followed, for it was very ridiculous; but I shall venture at it, for as it is not foreign to this matter, so some good use may be made of it. There was a jester standing by, that counterfeited the fool so naturally, that he seemed to be really one. The jests which he offered were so cold and dull, that we laughed more at him than at them; yet sometimes he said, as it were by chance, things that were not unpleasant; so as to justify the old proverb, ...

— Ideal Commonwealths • Various

... had enjoyed the experience somewhat at first, for there is pleasing and indefinable thrill to unexpected adventure, and this, for a brief spell, had been adventure de luxe. There had been warmth and light, men's laughter, women's voices, and children's play. But the loudest jester among the men was now silent, huddled deep in his great coat; and the young woman who had clapped her hands in silly ecstasy when it was announced that the train was snowbound was weeping and shivering by turns. It was cold—so cold that the snow which came sweeping and swirling ...

— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood

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