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gracioso

noun

Definition of gracioso

as in jester

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Recent Examples of gracioso With Edusei’s fastidious beat, the orchestra played with hair-trigger precision, and a huge dynamic range, in Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso. — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022 The same praise could be heaped upon Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, which opened the evening. — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017

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Noun

Iron gates wrought into patterns open into a small courtyard filled with metal ephemera, which leads to a door camouflaged by a mural of a bull and a jester.

— Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
Giving the Angry Wave mascot a jester hat was a nice touch, and the argyle stripe really ties the whole thing together.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of jester

Noun

This episode notably lacked any nod to Trump, though mentions of the president as a whole have been brief compared to the previous season, when the president was the show’s focal point for absurd antics.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
For those of a certain age, news about the global antics of eponymous founder John McAfee may have made the name extra memorable.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of antic

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The fare isn’t noteworthy or unique, except for the onion soup with its madcap, enormous puff pastry lid.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
New reads abound for your vacation tote throughout the weeks of July, with fiction picks featuring a Carnival cruise casualty, a highly entertaining jewel heist at the Waldorf-Astoria, and a Soviet-era madcap adventure.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of madcap

Noun

Don’t let the building’s modern facade fool you, the rooms are minimalist yet warm with wood flooring, floral wallpaper, and hand-knotted rugs.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
In these labors, Carson is akin to two other recent laureates, Jon Fosse and László Krasznahorkai, our foremost writers of holy fools.

— Merve Emre, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026

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