Auguste

//aʊˈɡuːst// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.

    "It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use."

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"Auguste Comte is regarded as the father of sociology."

Etymology

From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.

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