Names synonymous with Buffoon:—
Bobêche. A clown in a small theatre in the Boulevart du Temple, Paris. (1815–1825.)
Galimafré. A contemporary and rival of the former.
Tabarin. (Of the seventeenth century.)
Bruscambille.
Grimaldi. (1779–1837.) (See Scaramouch.)
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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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