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auguste

/aʊˈɡuːst/

auguste noun: a kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.

Noun

auguste (plural augustes)

  1. A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
    • It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 93

Forms of auguste

pluralaugustes

Origin of auguste

From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.

Questions about auguste

What does auguste mean?
Auguste means a kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
What part of speech is auguste?
Auguste is a noun.
How do you pronounce auguste?
Auguste is pronounced /aʊˈɡuːst/.
What is the plural of auguste?
The plural of auguste is augustes.

Words near auguste in the dictionary

  1. Augusta-Margaret River
  2. Augustan
  3. Augustana Lutheran
  4. Augustanan
  5. Augustanans
  6. auguste
  7. Augustea
  8. augusted
  9. Augustenborg
  10. auguster
  11. augustes

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