Meanings
nounbergomask (plural bergomasks)
plural bergomasks · alternative bergamask · alternative bergamesca · alternative bergamasca
- obsoleteA kind of rustic dance.
Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a bergomask dance between two of our company?
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
Origin
So called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, Italy, formerly noted for their clownishness.
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