Foolery, buffoonery; acting like Patelin in the French farce.
“I never in my life laughed so much as at the acting of that Patelinage.”—Rabelais: Pantagruel, iii. 34.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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