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1. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie.
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mountebank
n. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
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1 He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the public.
2 He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him.
3 The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
4 Since the revolution, everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
5 The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie.
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