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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)
A fool was a person without a proper gift of intelligence (Luke 12: 20; Rom. 1: 21; Eph. 5: 15)
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance
A comic entertainer, sometimes physically deformed, whose behaviour is the product of real or pretended mental deficiency. An Egyptian record of about ...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
licensed buffoon of the medieval Feast of Fools, later an important member of the sociétés joyeuses of medieval France, not to be confused with the ...
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Ronald W. Vince
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
A comic entertainer, sometimes physically deformed, whose behaviour is the product of real or pretended mental deficiency. An Egyptian record of about ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
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A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
Courtly society in medieval Ireland, Scotland, and Wales included jesters, buffoons, and mimics for entertainment; as conventional figures in early
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
a fool and his money are soon parted proverbial saying, late 16th century.
a fool at forty is a fool indeed...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
All Fools' Day a humorous term for 1 April as a day for testing the credulity of others; recorded from the early 18th century, and probably modelled on ...
