saltimbanco

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‘Becco’, and ‘cornuto’, ‘fantastico’, ‘magnifico’, ‘impress’ (the armorial device upon shields, and appearing constantly in its Italian form ‘impresa’), ‘saltimbanco’ (= mountebank), all once common enough, are now obsolete.

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  1. = French saltimbanque = Spanish Portuguese saltimbanco, from Italian saltimbanco, a mountebank, from saltare, leap, + in, on, + banco, bench: see salt, saltation, in, bank. Cf. mountebank.
 

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