Meaning of saltimbanque | Babel Free

Definitions

Tumbler, street acrobat.

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Examples

“Circus is a simple, romantic ballet, set to some suitable music by France’s Jacques Ibert, laid in a village square of placardized baroque, and dressed in costumes that suggest the saltimbanques of Picasso.”

“1960, Henry Miller, Nexus, Obelisk Press, Chapter 13, Another day my hands might wander over the keys with the felicity of a Borgia’s murderous paw. Choosing the staccato technique, I would ape the quibblers and quipsters of the Ghibellines. Or put it on, like a saltimbanque performing for a feeble-minded monarch.”

“Outside, saltimbanques of snow were leaping up and flipping backward.”

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