Crossword clues for jester
jester
- Court player
- King's fool
- Court joker
- Yorick's job
- Trinculo, e.g
- Royal old fool
- Royal cutup
- Royal court entertainer
- Royal clown
- Royal card?
- Rigoletto's occupation
- Professional fool
- King's entertainer
- King's amuser
- Crown clown
- Court cut-up
- Clown in the king's court
- Clown in a king's court
- Card for a king
- Cap-and-bells fellow
- Court employee
- King's card
- Court cutup
- Palace card
- Cap and bells wearer
- Court clown
- Court entertainer (with bells on?)
- A professional clown employed to to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
- Fool
- Court fool
- Trinculo or Yorick
- Trinculo, e.g.
- Make rude remarks about good man Joker
- Court humorist
- Entertainer stumped amid derisive hoot
- Fool rejects shuffling with no clubs
- Judge's terse order? He must be joking!
- Court figure
- Witty one
- Funny person
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jester \Jest"er\, n. [Cf. Gestour.]
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A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
--Shak.Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear.
--Longfellow. -
A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
He ambled up and down With shallow jesters.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., jestour (Anglo-Latin), late 14c., gestour "a minstrel, professional reciter of romances," agent noun from gesten "recite a tale," which was a jester's original function (see jest). Sense of "buffoon in a prince's court" is from c.1500.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who jests, jokes or mocks. 2 A person in colorful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.
WordNet
n. a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages [syn: fool, motley fool]
Wikipedia
A jester, court jester, or fool was historically an entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman employed to entertain him and his guests. A jester was also an itinerant performer who entertained common folk at fairs and markets. Jesters are also modern day entertainers who resemble their historical counterparts. Jesters in medieval times are often thought to have worn brightly coloured clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern and their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. In medieval times jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal ones included songs, music, and storytelling; additional ones included acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes, and magic. Much of the entertainment was performed in a comic style and many jesters made contemporary jokes in word or song about people or events well known to their audiences.
The Jester is a fictional character, a Golden Age superhero created by Paul Gustavson and published by Quality Comics. He first appeared in Smash Comics #22 (May 1941). Like most of Quality's characters, the Jester was later purchased by DC Comics and incorporated into their universe. Though little used by the company, he appeared in All-Star Squadron #31 and #60 and Starman #46.
Jester is the name of three fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Jester, in comics, may refer to:
- Jester (Quality Comics), a Quality Comics character who has also appeared in DC Comics
- Jester (Marvel Comics), a number of Marvel Comics characters
- Jester, a Wildstorm Comics character who has appeared in Wetworks
A jester is a type of entertainer.
Jester may also refer to:
Jester is the name of a modified Nordic Folkboat sailed by the famous circumnavigator Herbert 'Blondie' Hasler, notably coming second to Francis Chichester in the 1960 OSTAR, completing the voyage in 48 days.
Jester was rigged with Chinese-style junk sails, a rig with the reported advantage of being easier for a singlehanded sailor to manage. Hasler subsequently wrote Practical Junk Rig, a treatise on modern junk rigging of sailboats.
Category:Individual sailing vessels
Jester is the surname of:
- Beauford H. Jester (1893–1949), Governor of Texas from 1947–1949
- George Taylor Jester (1847–1922), Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1895–1899, father of Beauford
- Ralph Jester (1901–1991), American costume designer
- Virgil Jester (born 1927), former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Simon Jester, an alias of the sentient computer Mike in Robert Heinlein's novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Usage examples of "jester".
Two pages and three gentlemen were waiting upon him, and Mad Noll, the jester, stood at the head of the bed, now and then jingling his bawble and passing some quaint jest upon the chance of making his master smile.
Occasionally I had to be taken seriously, but in general I was the absurd chameleon of the species, the ludicrous jester and buffo, the all-purpose fool.
But there had long existed a class of professional actors, descended partly from the mystery and the miracle-playing artisans of the Middle Ages, partly from the strolling players, equilibrists, jugglers, and jesters.
From these rovers, however, Cedric and Athelstane accounted themselves secure, as they had in attendance ten servants, besides Wamba and Gurth, whose aid could not be counted upon, the one being a jester and the other a captive.
He had no idea what Jester was babbling about, when his thoughts were obsessed with the fact that Kylie should be stark naked by now.
Surely Loki the jester god was engaging in his pranks again, because no mortal being could ever come up with such a notion to tempt an already lustsome man.
When they passed into a corridor secured even from her, she began to grow intrigued, and more easily ignored the off-key singing of the jester, who was blasphemously describing in ancient octameter certain activities of the goddess Yun-Harla of which Nen Yim-thankfully-had never heard.
The province of those jesters is to make their owner laugh by all sorts of jokes which are usually nothing but disgusting tricks, or low, impertinent jests.
It was a Power, Caine, that drew your name and image from My mind, a Power from Outside that answered My query: Who shall bring this pestiferous Simon Jester into My grasp?
Musicians and jesters entertained the guests while the knights readied themselves for the tournament.
The clothes looked more like fancy-dress costumes than anything one could wear day to day: court jester crossed with harlequin crossed with Peter Pan, rainbow colours, zig-zag hems, Kate Greenaway layers of flowing fabrics, ballet tights and operatic coats for flower children.
I rather think, Prince of Jesters instead, Hyrcan the Fat and Unwieldy!
Jones instantly interposed on behalf of the suffering party, and pinned the insulting conqueror up to the wall: for the puppet-show man was no more able to contend with Jones, than the poor party-coloured jester had been to contend with this puppet-man.
Then the walls stiffened, hardened even as her eyes had done, hemmed her in, coming closer and closer with the courtyards, the long dark passages, the little rooms with their latticed windows, the Twelfth Duke and the Fifth Duke, Aubrey Poole and Lucy Tourneur, the jesters, the pastry-cooks, and the boy whose tongue was cut out, dust rising on the deserted floors, tapestries tap-tapping against the cold stone of walls room-thick, the gay-nosed apothecary with his squint and love-philtre, and, last of all, the present Duchess with her train of sycophants.
Since the guest of honor was advanced in years, the courtesans and jesters were performing an indelicate burlesque of the ceremony for the dead.