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Topic Started: Jun 19 2016, 03:46:41 PM (676 Views)
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Why are clowns called clowns?
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The "clown" character develops out of the zanni "rustic fool" characters of the early modern Commedia dell'arte, which were themselves directly based on the "rustic fool" characters of ancient Greek and Roman theatre. Rustic buffoon characters in Classical Greek theater were known as sklêro-paiktês (from paizein "to play (like a child)") or deikeliktas, besides other generic terms for "rustic" or "peasant". In Roman theater, a term for clown was fossor, literally "digger; labourer".

The English word clown is first recorded c. 1560 (as clowne, cloyne) in the generic meaning "rustic, boor, peasant". The origin of the word is uncertain, perhaps from a Scandinavian word cognate with clumsy.[2] It is in this sense that "Clown" is used as the name of fool characters in Shakespeare's Othello and The Winter's Tale. The sense of clown as referring to a professional or habitual fool or jester develops soon after 1600, based on Elizabethan "rustic fool" characters such as Shakespeare's.


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MUNDO VERY CLEAVER
MUNDO IS THE BEST CLOWN IN GAME!!!!

SHACO IS IMPOSTER!!!
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Malphite
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ROCKS! ROCKS! ROCKS! ROCKS!
can't argue w/ that
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Dr. Mundo
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MUNDO VERY CLEAVER
DOES ROCK MAN WANT PIE cleaver IN FACE?
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Shaco
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Pardon me but I'm the best clown here, twice over. 8o)
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Nocturne
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Your best nightmare
Why does your tribe shape look so much cooler then ours?!
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Malphite
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ROCKS! ROCKS! ROCKS! ROCKS!
Isn't yours the same thing that ours was last time?
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Shen
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The Eye of Twilight
We're not finished with images yet.
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Nocturne
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Your best nightmare
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
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