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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 337 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JESTER , a provider of " jests " or amusements, a buffoon, especially a professional See also:

fool at a royal See also:court or in a nobleman's See also:household (see FooL). The word " jest," from which " jester " is formed, is used from the 16th See also:century for the earlier " gest," See also:Lat. gesta, or res gestae, things done, from gerere, to do, hence deeds, exploits, especially as told in See also:history, and so used of the metrical and See also:prose romances and See also:chronicles of the See also:middle ages. The word became applied to satirical writings and to any See also:long-winded empty See also:tale, and thence to a joke or piece of fun, the current meaning of the word.

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