funambulo
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]funambulo (plural funambulos or funambuloes)
- (obsolete) A funambulist; a tightrope walker.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
- […] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]
References
[edit]- “funambulo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]fūnambulō