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funambulist

[fyoo-nam-byuh-list] / fjuˈnæm bjə lɪst /


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Jay O. Sanders, her husband, is another dramatic funambulist who has appeared in all 12 plays.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

Philippe’s mentor is an irascible Czech funambulist played, as an irascible Czech funambulist in a movie of this kind must be played, by Ben Kingsley.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2015

People can walk up inside the Ruckus World Trade Center, looking at its "tenants," finally meeting a diminutive figure of the funambulist Philippe Petit walking the rope between the towers.

From Time Magazine Archive

It rounds out completely our impression of watching the most expert funambulist in English letters.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

A funambulist may harass his muscles and risk his neck on the tight-rope, but hardly to entertain his own family.

From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey




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