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Definition of Ropedancers
1. ropedancer [n] - See also: ropedancer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ropedancers
Literary usage of Ropedancers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning the Human Understanding by John Locke (1813)
"What incredible and astonishing actions do we find ropedancers and tumblers bring
their bodies to ! Not but that sundry, in almost all manual arts, ..."
2. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778)
"... and is unhappily fallen under the imputation of ' illiterate and mechanic :
and as Terence, in one ot" * his prologues, complains of the ropedancers ..."
3. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... examine the question whether the godly may lawfully hold stock in a Company
for bringing over Chinese ropedancers. " Considerable men have shares," says ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1881)
"... and vaulting acrobats and ropedancers, who draw such gaping crowds, are really
male athletes with female names and in female costume. ..."
5. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan (1858)
"... examine the question whether the godly may lawfully hold stock in a Company
for bringing over Chinese ropedancers. " Considerable men have shares," says ..."
6. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1878)
"... examine the question whether the godly may lawfully hold stock in a Company
for bringing over Chinese ropedancers. " Considerable men have shares," says ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1851)
"To such a couch, upon a certain evening, he was about to consign himself, when
he heard strains of music which reminded him of his friends the ropedancers. ..."
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