Blondin

/ blɔ̃dɛ̃ /

noun

1. BlondinCharles18241897MFrenchTHEATRE: acrobatTHEATRE: tightrope walker Charles , real name Jean-François Gravelet . 1824–97, French acrobat and tightrope walker; best known for walking a tightrope across Niagara Falls (1859)

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Blondin is a bankruptcy lawyer, like Warren, and has known her for decades.

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The great sensation of the moment with the British public was Blondin and his tight-rope performances.

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This rustic bridge was not substantial to look at, and too narrow for anything but Blondin or a monkey to walk over.

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But Barbarossa was not a Blondin, and had not a physical constitution proof against a wetting.

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"Miss Field," said Royal Blondin, and his dark hand came across the tea-cups.

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This was an invitation to Ward to burst into involved sentences in the tongue; Royal Blondin turned to him seriously.

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