auguste

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See also: Auguste

English

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Etymology

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From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aʊˈɡuːst/, /ɔːˈɡuːst/, /ɔːˈɡəst/, /-(ˈ)ɡʊst/

Noun

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auguste (plural augustes)

  1. (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.

References

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French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of août, which was inherited.

Adjective

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auguste (plural augustes)

  1. august; noble, stately

Etymology 2

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From German (dumme) August.

Noun

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auguste m (plural augustes)

  1. a type of clown with a white makeup

Further reading

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Italian

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Adjective

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auguste

  1. feminine plural of augusto

Latin

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Adjective

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auguste

  1. vocative masculine singular of augustus

References

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  • 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.