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  • “One should never be content with approximation; one should never try to avoid the difficulty by resorting to subterfuge -- even if it fools the reader -- or to linguistic trickery" ( "des clowneries de langage").”

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • “Not mixt with clowneries us'd in common houses; 20”

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

  • “The Contusions of Peggy, by James Augustus Jimaboy," you are justly indignant when you find melodrama and predetermined pathos instead of the clever clowneries which the sheer absurdity of the author's signature predicts.”

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)

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‘clowneries’ has been looked up 93 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.