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Pantaloon Pantaloon
Pantaloon a Venetian character in Italian commedia dell'arte, typically represented as a foolish old man wearing spectacles, pantaloons, and slippers; in harlequinade or pantomime, he is shown as an old man, alternately foolish and scheming, who abets the clown in his tricks and provides a butt for... Read more
hen hen
hen while a hen may be taken as the type of a foolish woman, a hen with her chickens may symbolize Christ, in allusion to Jesus's words in Matthew ch. 23, ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem…how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her... Read more
Laughter Laughter
238. Laughter See also 213. HUMOR . Abderian relating to foolish or excessive laughter. [Allusion to Democritus, the laughing philosopher, born in Abdero.] cachinnation raucous laughter; loud whinnying. geloscopy, gelotoscopy a form of divination that determines a person Read more
satire satire
satire term applied to any work of literature or art whose objective is ridicule. It is more easily recognized than defined. From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises—vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality—and... Read more
Booker Taliaferro Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington 1856-1915, American educator, b. Franklin co., Va. His mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white man. After the Civil War, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in Malden, W.Va., and attended school part time, until he was able to enter the... Read more
Rehoboam Rehoboam
Rehoboam , in the Bible, last king of the United Monarchy, first king of Judah, son of Solomon . Under him the northern tribes broke away from the rule of Jerusalem and set up a separate kingdom (called Israel) with Jeroboam I as their king. Rehoboam's foolish insolence to the protesting... Read more
dunce dunce
dunce a foolish or ignorant person; originally an epithet for a follower of John Duns Scotus, whose adherents were ridiculed by 16th-century humanists and reformers as enemies of learning.dunce's cap a paper cone formerly put on the head of a dunce at school as a mark of disgrace; the expression... Read more
ass ass
ass1 / as/ • n. 1. a hoofed mammal (genus Equus) of the horse family with a braying call, typically smaller than a horse and with longer ears. The two species are E. africanus of Africa, which is the ancestor of the domestic ass or donkey, and E. hemionus of Asia. ∎  (in... Read more
Abraham Bosse Abraham Bosse
Abraham Bosse , 1602-76, French engraver and painter. He studied art in Paris and became a teacher of perspective in the Académie royale. A prolific and skillful worker, he engraved more than 1,400 pieces. He is best known for his faithful representation of French civil life and costumes... Read more
Birmingham riots Birmingham riots
Birmingham riots, 1791. A foretaste of the great conservative revulsion against the French Revolution, directed against its sympathizers. Joseph Priestley, a unitarian scientist, had foolishly written of placing gunpowder beneath superstition and error, and was henceforth known as ‘Gunpowder... Read more

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