Pronunciations (3)
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/aʊˈɡuːst/
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/ɔːˈɡuːst/
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/ɔːˈɡəst/
Noun
A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
- Examples
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It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.