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SCARAMOUCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 301 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCARAMOUCH , properly a buffoon, used later colloquially for a ne'er-do-well. The name was that of a stock See also:

character in 17th-See also:century See also:Italian See also:farce, Scaramuccia (i.e. literally " skirmish "), who, attired usually in a See also:black See also:Spanish See also:dress, burlesquing a " See also:don," was beaten by See also:Harlequin for his boasting and cowardice. The See also:part was played in See also:London in 1673 by a well-known Italian actor, Tiberic Fiurelli, and became popular. There are many instances of the use of the word in the New See also:English See also:Dictionary.

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