aerialist
Use Aerialist in a sentence
i noun
1.
a trapeze artist.
2.
Slang. a burglar who gains entrance to a building or apartment by leaping from rooftop to rooftop, sliding down ropes, or the like.
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| —n | |
| chiefly (US) a trapeze artist or tightrope walker | |
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Aerialist
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
She does not know that he too, is an aerialist en route to her former carnival where he is to replace her lover.
It is an agile aerialist, capable of catching flying insects on the wing.
Certainly she would mourn her late husband, but her husband had been an aerialist, too-he'd also fallen and had survived his fall.
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