clown,

“Truly you are mistaken, pretty Mysie,” said the clown,

The Monastery 2008

From that time legend has fastened on Rabelais, has completely travestied him, till, bit by bit, it has made of him a buffoon, a veritable clown,

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

From that time legend has fastened on Rabelais, has completely travestied him, till, bit by bit, it has made of him a buffoon, a veritable clown,

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

And while Nature provides us with genius _and_ clown,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 Various

In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

And he saw that Right Royal was smeared like a clown,

Right Royal John Masefield 1922

As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,

Locksley Hall 1909

And even our sailor-like captain will think it necessary to play the society clown,

The Captain of the Kansas Louis Tracy 1895

There'll be higher education for the toilin 'starvin' clown,

In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894

Mistress first and good wife after, clerkly squire before the clown,

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881