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Definition of Funambulists
1. funambulist [n] - See also: funambulist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Funambulists
Literary usage of Funambulists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Duffy's Hibernian Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Legends, Tales, and Stories (1861)
"We do not presume to state, however, for we have no authority for it, that any
of the "funambulists" of the classic ages ever surpassed the feats of Blondin ..."
2. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1859)
"... either in outlay, ornament, or supplementary attraction; no interpolated
adjuncts, whether in the shape of acrobats, aeronauts, funambulists, elephants, ..."
3. Rachel and the New World: A Trip to the United States and Cuba by Léon Beauvallet (1856)
"... are tame bears, mountebanks, boxers, and the tours de force of tight-rope
dancers, which they are very careful to call acrobats or funambulists; ..."
4. Music: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and by William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1897)
"... the East squatted on the ground, surpasses the most difficult feats achieved
by the greatest of funambulists and high vaulters in the middle of the air. ..."
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