What is the manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke called?
clownishness — The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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