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clownery|ˈklaʊnərɪ|
Also 7 clownry.
[f. as prec. + -ery.]
1. The quality or behaviour of a country clown.
1589Nashe in Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 13 Such carterlie varietie..the extremitie of clownerie. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xxiii. (1748) 355 Let the curious tax his clownry with their skill. a1668Davenant News fr. Plymouth (1673) 32 Their weak Compound Of clownery and rashness. 1694R. L'Estrange Fables 145 The Fool's conceit here had both Clownery and ill nature in't.
b. (with pl.) A clownish act or usage.
1607Chapman Bussy D'Ambois i. Wks. 1873 II. 14 Not mix'd with clowneries us'd in common houses.
2. The performance of a comic clown.
1823Lamb Elia (1860) 127 The clownery and pantaloonery of these pantomimes have clean passed out of my head. 1865Reader 24 June 712, I will go to see no tumbling, no clownery, no comic songs. |