SCARAMOUCH

DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
VERB
to behave like a scaramouch

also SCARAMOUCHA, SCARAMOUCHI, SCARAMUCCIO, SCARAMUZZA, SCARRAMUCCIO, SCHARAMOUCH

NOTES: (from E-NED)
The character was intended in ridicule of the Spanish don, and was dressed in Spanish 
costume, usually black; the costume was often adopted in masquerades.
The clever impersonation of the part by Tiberio Fiurelli, who brought his company of 
Italian players to London in 1673, rendered the word very popular in England during the 
last quarter of the 17th century.

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Pronunciation of SCARAMOUCH

from Italian Scaramuccia, the name of a stock character in Italian farce, 
from scaramuccia ‘skirmish’, ultimately from the same Germanic base as skirmish

a 1662 - (definition 1) Olearius' Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors sent 
..to the great Duke of Moscovy. 
Whereto are added the Travels of Mandelslo from Persia into the East-Indies, 
John Davies;
see Example below

From: The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein 
to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia
Begun in the Year M.DC.XXXIII (1633) and finish'd in M.DC.XXXIX (1639)
By Adam Olearius
Rendred into English by John Davies, 1662
The Travels of the Ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein 
into Muscovy, Tartary, and Persia
The Sixth Book, 1637
P. 380