1 Natasha looked joyfully at the familiar face of Pierre, "the buffoon," as Peronskaya had called him, and knew he was looking for them, and for her in particular.
2 He was the buffoon, who went by a woman's name, Nastasya Ivanovna.
3 Nastasya Ivanovna the buffoon sat with a sad face at the window with two old ladies.
4 "Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers," answered the buffoon.
5 She said and felt at that time that no man was more to her than Nastasya Ivanovna, the buffoon.
6 No one found more opportunities for attacking, no one captured or killed more Frenchmen, and consequently he was made the buffoon of all the Cossacks and hussars and willingly accepted that role.
7 In short, he entirely sacrificed every appearance of the warrior to the masquerade of a buffoon.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 8 Really, if you looked closely at Clifford, he was a buffoon, and a buffoon is more humiliating than a bounder.
9 One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard.
10 And populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833