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augustes

augustes is the plural of auguste.

Meaning of auguste

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

Questions about augustes

What is augustes the plural of?
Augustes is the plural of auguste.

Words near augustes in the dictionary

  1. auguste
  2. Augustea
  3. augusted
  4. Augustenborg
  5. auguster
  6. augustes
  7. augustest
  8. Augusteum
  9. Augustian
  10. Augustiana
  11. Augustians

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