bouffon

The Saddle Room was rocking until the spurs jingled and a girl with a back-combed bouffon of red hair was twisting with obsessive grace on a table top which put her ten inches above floor level, not allowing for the back-combing.

Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

'I saw it first,' said the girl with the back-combed bouffon.

Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

Le pauvre bouffon, tout effrayé, vint se plaindre au roi du mauvais traitement dont on le menaçait.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

-- Merci, prince, répondit le bouffon; je n'attendais pas moins de votre générosité.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

I was received in the House with a laugh, because three parts out of four believed me to be with you in Ireland, as bouffon de la Cour.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

-- L'emploi de bouffon était-il important au moyen âge?

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

I was received in the House with a laugh, because three parts out of four believed me to be with you in Ireland, as bouffon de la Cour.

George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

J'y ai vu qu'on y traite de petits esprits les etrangers qui sont etonnes que dans les pieces de ce grand Shakespeare un senateur romain fasse le bouffon; et gu'un roi paraisse sur le theatre en ivrogne.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

(Gilles), que le mot _Arlequin_ fut pris d'abord, sur la fin du XVI siècle, par un certain bouffon italien que le Président _Harlay_ avoit accueilli.

Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

At this day, the French Critics have abated nothing of their aversion to this darling of our Nation: 'the English, with their bouffon de

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730