| 单词 |
saltimbanco |
| 释义 |
‖ saltimbanco|sæltɪmˈbæŋkəʊ|
Also 7 saltinbancho, (erron. salta-di-banco), salt'in-, 8 saltinbanco, 9 saltimbank (pseudo-arch.), -banque.
[It. (= Sp. saltinbanco, -banque), f. saltare to leap + in on + banco bench; whence also F. saltimbanque.]
A mountebank; a quack.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 11 Saltimbancoes, Quacksalvers, and Charlatans. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 1007 He play'd the saltinbancho's part, Transform'd t'a Frenchman by my art. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 114 An Archer, Fidler, Poetaster, A kind of Salt'in-banco too. 1675A. Huyberts Corner-stone 15 No more than what may serve the Salta-di-Banco's upon a Stage. 1850James Old Oak Chest I. 125 To make the contortions of their ‘Saltimbanks’, and ‘tomblesteres’ act as a sort of argument or introduction to what was to follow. 1865Sala Diary in Amer. I. 368 Those..marchands forains, saltimbanques and buffoons, who in Europe are afoot on every holiday.
attrib.a1734[see non-jurable].
Hence saltimˈbanquism.
1861Temple Bar II. 508 That gorgeous temple of saltimbanquism in Leicester Square [sc. the Alhambra]. |
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