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Mar. 30, 2015
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\fyoo-NAM-byuh-list\
noun
1. a tightrope walker.
Quotes
…after a week there had been an office crisis. The cabaret editor died on the job, in an incident involving a French funambulist and seven live eels (one of which was in flames).
-- Will Self, Cock and Bull, 1992
Origin
Funambulist came to English in the late 1700s from the Latin fūnambulus meaning "ropedancer."
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