ropedancer

American

[rohp-dan-ser, -dahn-] / ˈroʊpˌdæn sər, -ˌdɑn- /

noun

a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.

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Etymology

Origin of ropedancer

First recorded in 1640–50; rope + dancer

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ropedancer

"Pay me what her clothes cost," cried the ropedancer at last, "and you may take her."

From Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin

With these went all who live by amusing the leisure of others, from the painter and the comic poet, down to the ropedancer and the Merry Andrew.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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