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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Buffoons
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.)
Source:
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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