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Meanings of court jesters in English

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Profession.

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        Examples for "jester"
        1
        The mountebank is wanted in the streets, the jester at the Louvre.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        2
        The real gangsters saw him as a buffoon, a harmless court jester.
        The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
        3
        The king frowned, and cast an angry glance on the bold jester.
        The Merchant of Berlin: An Historical Novel
        4
        He was to the last fond of pleasantry and kept a jester.
        History of English Humour, Vol. 1 / With an Introduction upon An...
        5
        It looked to her as if the jester had taken the throne.
        Driving Heat
        1
        The jesters and buffoons shame them out of everything grand and elevated.
        Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
        2
        The children might have been his jesters, and the dogs his princes.
        The gunslinger
        3
        We are court jesters, we are clowns, that's what we do.
        Ebony
        4
        The performers are like court jesters, waiting on the favors of a queen.
        Black is the new white
        5
        Sycophants, courtiers, jesters, imbecile sons of princes, became great ecclesiastical dignitaries.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
        1
        The real gangsters saw him as a buffoon, a harmless court jester.
        The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
        2
        Johannes Blackboots had allowed Renfrow the freedom of a court jester.
        Surrender to the will of the night
        3
        Chelsea, of course, have not forked out on a court jester.
        The Guardian
        4
        Evidently, Green Lantern the Justice League's court jester until someone takes his ring.
        Wired
        5
        I'd become his court jester and that was fine by me.
        Don't blink
        Usage of court jesters in English
        1
        We are court jesters, we are clowns, that's what we do.
        Ebony
        2
        The performers are like court jesters, waiting on the favors of a queen.
        Black is the new white
        3
        They are the court jesters at the palace of the real power players in America.
        The Guardian
        4
        Some fans are already here in the upper tiers of the stadium bumbling around like court jesters.
        The Irish Times
        5
        As court jesters tweaking the nose of the powerful, they are quite possibly helping to keep the nation sane.
        The Guardian
        6
        Once bought to keep the thoroughbreds calm, they're fat court jesters who've taken over the place now the royal family's died off.
        Lit: a memoir
        7
        A former member of Christchurch's Court Jesters he's now a popular figure on the Wellington improv scene.
        Radio NZ
        Translations for court jesters
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