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Fool, The Fool, or Fools may refer to:

• A jester, a clown, a harlequin, a bouffon
• Foolishness, the quality of having poor judgement or little intelligence

Etymology

From Middle English fōl (“fool”) from Old French fol (French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis.

Fool or Fools may also refer to:

• A jester, or clown
• Illiterate
• Foolishness, the quality of having poor judgment or little intelligence
• The Fool (Tarot card), a Tarot card
• Shakespearean fool, an archetypal character in numerous works by Shakespeare
• The Fool (design collective), a Dutch design collective and band influential in the psychedelic style of art in the 1960s

Movie

• A Fool There Was (1915 film)

See also

• Folly (disambiguation)
• Feast of fools
• Fool's gold
• Illustration: Laughing Fool[1] by a Netherlandish painter (possibly Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen).