hunchbacked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hunchbacked
1590–1600; blend of huckbacked see ( humpbacked ) and bunchbacked
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Mr. Sher delivered his breakthrough performance in 1984, starring in “Richard III” as the play’s hunchbacked title character.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
The French premier also gave the pope a more traditional gift - an 1836 edition of "Notre Dame de Paris", Victor Hugo's classic novel about the hunchbacked bell ringer Quasimodo set in Paris in 1482.
From Reuters ● Oct. 18, 2021
O’Brien, who played the hunchbacked, Time Warp-dancing butler Riff-Raff, remembers the view from the stage on opening night.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2020
Rigoletto Vineyard Touring Opera puts a 1980s-style spin on Verdi’s tragic tale of a hunchbacked court jester, his beautiful daughter and a lecherous duke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2019
Inside, the cairn tunnel was damp and narrow and profoundly dark, so cramped that I could only move forward in a kind of hunchbacked crab-walk.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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