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Definition of jester in English Turkish dictionary
- soytarı
Yeni saray soytarısıyla tanıştın mı?
-Have you met the new court jester?
- şaklaban
- dalkavuk
- {i} şakacı
- {i} maskara
- şakacı kimse/soytarı
- a jester
- Bir soytarı
- court jester
- Soytarı, maskara; kralın soytarısı
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Definition of jester in English English dictionary
- a person in bright garb and fool’s cap who amused a mediaeval royal court
- one who jests, jokes or mocks
- {n} one fond of jesting, a wit, a buffoon
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
- In the courts of kings and queens in medieval Europe, the jester was the person whose job was to do silly things in order to make people laugh. = fool
- 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
- {i} prankster, joker, one who makes jokes; one who works as a clown or entertainer (especially at a medieval court)
- - one of the colonial races
- a person in bright garb and fool's cap who amused a mediaeval royal court
- A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool
- A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk
- court jester
- a person in bright garb and fool's cap who served as amusement in a mediaeval royal court
- court jester
- A man in the past whose job was to tell jokes and make people laugh
- court jester
- Who is a clown or buffoon employed in the service of a king or other ruling monarch for entertainment
Great, now I was the court jester. "Badabing" I mumbled in weak rim-shot impression.
- A jester
- joker
- A jester
- bourder
- jesters
- plural of jester
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