tregetour
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun (noun) One who practiced legerdemain or sleight of hand; a prestigiator; a magician; a juggler who produced optical illusions by mechanical contrivances; hence, an impostor; a cheat.
Examples
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So even though his gray eyes are elfin, lanky body wizardly, and ‘straight white teeth’ the better part of human, Cayden (Cade) knows he’s ugly. At least he’s a ‘tregetour,’ which the concluding List of Terms defines as ‘originally a street magician, evolved into the word for a playwright’ and he calls ‘a crafter of words, a designer of specific magics.’
Faren Miller reviews Melanie Rawn, Locus Online, April 4, 2012
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The captives answered not his address, but nestled close to each other, interchanging, at intervals, words of comfort, and recoiling as far as possible from the ex-tregetour, who, having taken with him a more congenial companion in the shape of a great leathern bottle, finally sunk into the silent and complacent doze which usually rewards the libations to the Bromian god.
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In his youth he had been an itinerant mountebank, or, as it was called, tregetour.
Note
‘Tregetour’ comes from the Old French ‘tregeter,’ throw around.
