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English
Etymology
From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.
Pronunciation
Noun
auguste (plural augustes)
- (theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 93:It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of août, which was inherited.
Adjective
auguste (plural augustes)
- august; noble, stately
Etymology 2
From German (dumme) August.
Noun
auguste m (plural augustes)
- a type of clown with a white makeup
Further reading
Italian
Adjective
auguste
- feminine plural of augusto
Latin
Adjective
auguste
- vocative masculine singular of augustus
References
- “auguste”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “auguste”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- auguste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.