[ noun ] a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages <noun.person>
Jester \Jest"er\, n. [Cf. {Gestour}.] 1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. --Shak.
Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. --Longfellow.
2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. --Shak.
Adams was the first jester, the Lord of Misrule, and, in 1929, assumed the role of director.
Robert Honeysucker sings the title role of the hunchback jester; Melody Johnson portrays his daughter, Gilda; and Paul Groves is the lustful Duke of Mantua.
At intermission, assuming that even this company knew that the jester's cap trick had been done to death, I bet my companion that it would not appear in the second half.
The distracting business of the page's entrance in Act 2 caused more of a fuss than the jester's 'Cortigiani' moments later.
The court jester at the Royal Britain Exhibition made unkind jokes about the royal family and the commercial museum's managers, not amused, told him to stop or get the sack.