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funambulist

NOUN
  1. an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope

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  • It begins by referring to the “funambulist” at the heart of the novel. Beating the rush on a National Book Award winner « A Progressive on the Prairie
  • The bow (like the funambulist with the soles of his slippers fresh chalked) kept glancing on and off, till we hoped he would be off altogether and break his neck; and now the least harsh and grating of the cords snaps up in the fiddler's face, and a crude one is to be applied; and now -- but what is the use of pursuing the description? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
  • On August 7, 1974, French funambulist Petit, then 24, performed an astonishing high-wire act on a cable that he and his accomplices had surreptitiously rigged between the north and south towers of the World Trade Center.
  • ~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~ tchatche (tchatcher) = to chat; la brocante (f) = second-hand goods, fleamarket; le brocanteur (m) = seller at a fleamarket; portugais = Portugeuse; français = French; le funambulist = tightrope walker; le pichet = pitcher; le papier (m) à bulles = plastic wrap with "bubbles Brocante / Antiques
  • The masked funambulist Ginés de Pasamonte was disguised as the puppeteer Master Pedro?
  • Travelling spectacle represents the oldest tradition with showmen, funambulists, conjuring tricks and acrobatics.
  • That the scion of one of the oldest-established funambulist families in the land should come to this, should give up this gay life of sawdust, music, sequins, and romance to become a bean-counter. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • This is the first and only edition of the first treatise about acrobats and funambulists.
  • Jean Francois Gravelet, aka Charles Blondin, was considered to be one of the greatest funambulists (aerialists/tightrope-walkers) of all time.
  • After all, both men were both expert funambulists, having risen to the rank of Black Belt in the Ringling Brothers School of Aerial Arts.
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