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adjective
- Of or pertaining to the actions a clown, often in terms of inappropriate or boorish behaviour.
- 1815 "He is very plain, undoubtedly--remarkably plain:--but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very , so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility." " Jane Austen, Emma, s:Emma/Volume 1/Chapter 4, Volume I, Chapter 4.
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