Scaramouche

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Scar·a·mouch

also Scar·a·mouche S0124100 (skăr′ə-mo͞osh′, -mo͞och′, -mouch′)n. A stock character in commedia dell'arte and pantomime, depicted as a boastful coward or buffoon.

[French Scaramouche, from Italian Scaramuccia, from scaramuccia, skirmish; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

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Scaramouche - a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful cowardScaramouch

Scaramouche

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Scaramouche:

see commedia dell'artecommedia dell'arte
, popular form of comedy employing improvised dialogue and masked characters that flourished in Italy from the 16th to the 18th cent. Characters of the Commedia Dell'Arte
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Scaramouche

talks a good fight; never does. [Ital. Lit.: Espy, 125]See: Boastfulness

Scaramouche

stock character in commedia dell’arte; boastful poltroon. [Ital. Drama: Brewer Dictionary, 967]See: Cowardice

Scaramouche

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Related to Scaramouche: Bismillah

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noun a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward

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Scaramouch

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