Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Jester

Jester , noun

[Compare Gestour.]

1.
A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
This... was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. — Shakespeare
Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. — Longfellow
2.
A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. — Shakespeare