rope dancer
Britishnoun
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These tenants were a man known as Iron Jaws, a rope dancer called Fanfar, a girl named Caillette, and a clown with an odd name.
From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Jules Lermina
The rope dancer is able to walk the rope, because he is accustomed to it.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
Castlemain's life of shame at court had long ceased to be even a matter of gossip, but at this time she was notoriously involved with one Jacob Hall, a common rope dancer.
From The Touchstone of Fortune by Charles Major
State of Knocker.—Jumping up and down the surface of the door like a rope dancer, occasionally diverging into a zig-zag, the key-hole partaking of the same eccentricities.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 by Various
Why does the rope dancer invariably have to repeat his performances?
From The Handbook of Conundrums by Edith B. Ordway
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