rope dancer

noun

1. another name for a tightrope walker

Example Sentences

It is related by Raine that, in 1237, Prior Melsonby was elected Bishop of Durham, and that his mitre was taken from him for encouraging a rope dancer to perform his feats on a cord stretched between the towers of the cathedral.

From Project Gutenberg

Imagine a threadbare coat, once green, but beginning to turn yellow, and made after the style of a dozen years before—that is to say, very short in front; in truth, it was also short in the skirts, which were very scant, and hardly hid the seat of his trousers, which were olive green and only just reached to his ankles, and fitted as close about the thigh and knee as a rope dancer's tights.

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Instead, he wrote a veiled expose, a novel called The Rope� Dancer, in which the head of an American intelligence agency turns out to be working for the Russians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why does the rope dancer invariably have to repeat his performances?

From Project Gutenberg

Now there was Ensler's rope dancer, one of the most perfect automatons I have ever seen.

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