Crossword-Solution: GRIMALDI 8 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But perhaps they sought to increase their apparent number, and ran from one place to another to be ready to meet observation, like the famous clown Grimaldi, who used to go through his performances at one London theatre, and then dash off in his paint and motley to another, so that perambulating theatre-going men might imagine that there were two greatest clowns in the world.

The only existing continental gaming houses authorized by government are now the two Badens, Spa (of which the lease is nearly expired, and will not be renewed), Monaco (capital of the ridiculous little Italian principality, of which the suzerain is a scion of the house of "Grimaldi"), Malmoe, in Sweden, too remote to do much harm, and HOMBOURG.

Grimaldi’s lineaments gradually resolved themselves into a very fine expression of humility and confusion.

Bentley, he edited and partly wrote the “Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi,” {11} a book now almost forgotten, though not without passages of pathos and humour.

Dickens, in the introductory chapter (dated February, 1838), gives the following account of his share in the work:— “For about a year before his death, Grimaldi was employed in writing a full account of his life and adventures, and as people who write their own lives often find time to extend them to a most inordinate length, it is no wonder that his account of himself was exceedingly voluminous.