auguste

Etymology

From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.

noun

  1. (theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
    It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use. 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 93

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