0 a man in the past whose job was to tell jokes and make people laugh:
a court jester
1 (in earlier times) a man whose job was to tell jokes and make people laugh:
a court jester
However, several aspects of his history suggest a more specialised role, one that combined the activities of cleric, scholar, musician and jester.
The buffoon is better equipped to handle dissimilar elements, as if he were a jester, juggling life and art, or the comic and the serious.
Death and the jester's (the theatre's) order are two sides of the same coin.
It is noticeable that still there are extraordinarily few women in this much jester organisation who reach the highest ranks.
There is only one jester and one fool around the place from time to time.
In the first, he went a long way to confirm his reputation as our best financial jester.
He will know that the basso profundo often takes the part of the jester and sometimes the ogre.
I would remind you that the role of court jester is an essential one!
