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Meanings of jesters in English

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шут

Profession.

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        Usage of jesters in English
        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
        6
        They are hardened to disaster; they and death are fellow-jesters.
        The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerus...
        7
        The intelligent jesters answered him to confuse still more, and left him at Indianapolis.
        The Lincoln Story Book / A Judicious Collection of the Best Stor...
        8
        Shakspeare foresaw him, when he framed his fools and jesters.
        The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
        9
        Invariably they had heroes and heroines, good old servants or grandparents, and merry jesters.
        The "Goldfish" / Being the Confessions af a Successful Man
        10
        He was himself fond of gaiety, invented some musical instruments, and kept professed jesters.
        History of English Humour, Vol. 1 / With an Introduction upon An...
        11
        Village entertainment included traveling jesters, acrobats, musicians, and bear- baiter.
        Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
        12
        But then, neither do fools, unless they work as jesters for our glorious king.
        Shadow prowler
        13
        They are the court jesters at the palace of the real power players in America.
        The Guardian
        14
        Then came in a set of clowns and jesters.
        Anabasis
        15
        The time was approaching when the humour manufactured by professed jesters would not be appreciated.
        History of English Humour, Vol. 1 / With an Introduction upon An...
        16
        A policeman, coming up in front of the hotel, looked on, listening to the jesters.
        What Necessity Knows
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        Jesters through the time
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