Talk:pagliacci

pagliacci
Italian etymology is correct (plural of pagliaccio). But is it an English word? It is not in the OED or any other of my dictionaries. SemperBlotto 11:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * "a pagliacci" does get a lot of b.g.c. hits, nearly all in English contexts, but firstly, it looks like all are capitalized, and secondly, even discarding those that are simply using the opera name attributively, it's not clear to me that they all have the same sense. Nonetheless, there are a few hits that do seem like they might be using it as defined in the entry, such as this one (He is a Pagliacci who has forgotten (avidya) or has "bad faith" towards his inner malaise.). —RuakhTALK 18:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

RFV failed. English section deleted. —RuakhTALK 20:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)