It begins by referring to the “funambulist” at the heart of the novel. From Wordnik.com. [Beating the rush on a National Book Award winner « A Progressive on the Prairie] Reference
Having looked in up, in retrospect “funambulist” sounds far more interesting than the common term most people use. From Wordnik.com. [Beating the rush on a National Book Award winner « A Progressive on the Prairie] Reference
~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~ tchatche (tchatcher) = to chat; la brocante (f) = second-hand goods, fleamarket; le brocanteur (m) = seller at a fleamarket; portugais = Portugeuse; français = French; le funambulist = tightrope walker; le pichet = pitcher; le papier (m) à bulles = plastic wrap with "bubbles". From Wordnik.com. [Characters] Reference
The bow (like the funambulist with the soles of his slippers fresh chalked) kept glancing on and off, till we hoped he would be off altogether and break his neck; and now the least harsh and grating of the cords snaps up in the fiddler's face, and a crude one is to be applied; and now -- but what is the use of pursuing the description?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
It's an extraordinary quality bartenders have; a bar or, in this case, a lounge, can be quite adverse and hectic and easily become chaotic, yet bartenders - good bartenders, that is, go about the storm of hands and impatient glares and fidgets with a frightful calm, riding a teetering wire between cordiality of social obligation and quickness and precision of hand with the balance of a world-class funambulist. From Wordnik.com. [Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 1] Reference
This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist. From Wordnik.com. [The Savvy Reader] Reference
King Ohmy the funambulist fell off the slack-rope and survived. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
When presale tickets went on sale in December for her Oakland show, someone clever chose the password: funambulist. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Company] Reference
Persian poet who left out all the A's (as well as the poetry) in his verses, or of that other French funambulist whose sonnet in honour of. From Wordnik.com. [De Libris: Prose and Verse] Reference
Tagged "Let Your Mind Wander," it features French tightrope artist (funambulist) Florent Blondeau walking on red wires above Budapest, Hungary. From Wordnik.com. [ANIMAL] Reference
Petit (an experienced funambulist) proceeded to spend 45 minutes balancing on a wire stretched between the towers in a spectacular display of illegal tightrope walking. From Wordnik.com. [The First Post: Latest] Reference
Nik Wallenda, a seventh-generation funambulist from the Flying Wallendas circus family, cycled more than 100ft (30m) along the wire strung between two hotels at the Paradise Island. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
In other chapters we meet Claire and Gloria, two members of a Vietnam support group for grieving moms; Lara, a young artist who is in an automobile accident with Corrigan; Judge Soderberg (Claire's husband), who sentences both Tilly and the funambulist. From Wordnik.com. [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference
Tchatche (tchatcher) = to chat; la brocante (f) = second-hand goods, fleamarket; le brocanteur (m) = seller at a fleamarket; portugais = Portugeuse; français = French; le funambulist = tightrope walker; le pichet = pitcher; le papier (m) à bulles = plastic wrap with "bubbles". From Wordnik.com. [Characters] Reference
Our word for the day is “funambulist“. From Wordnik.com. [weapons of massdistraction › The Man Who Walked Between The Towers] Reference
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