Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acrobat who walks on a wire tightrope.
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- noun One who performs the feat of walking on a
highwire .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1974 Philippe Petit, the French wirewalker, pulled off a sensational coup.
In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Magic vs. horror 2010
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In 1974 Philippe Petit, the French wirewalker, pulled off a sensational coup.
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In 1974 Philippe Petit, the French wirewalker, pulled off a sensational coup.
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This was definitely one of the most loved documentaries in recent years, thanks in no small part to the astonishing charisma of the eccentric wirewalker at its heart.
JJ Abrams Planning Fictionalised Telling of Man on Wire Story | /Film 2009
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Its subject is Philippe Petit, the French wirewalker who, on Aug. 7, 1974, spent almost an hour not just walking but dancing, kneeling -- with one arm outstretched in a gesture of salute -- and lying down on a cable strung 1,350 feet above the street between the tops of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.
Documentary 2008
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Its subject is Philippe Petit, the French wirewalker who, in 1974, spent almost an hour on a cable strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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The wirewalker in the documentary "Man on Wire," New York City PROFESSIONAL:
2009 Resolutions Nicholas Dawidoff 2008
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Its subject is Philippe Petit, the French wirewalker who, on Aug. 7, 1974, spent almost an hour not just walking but dancing, kneeling -- with one arm outstretched in a gesture of salute -- and lying down on a cable strung 405 meters above the street between the tops of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.
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When there were no circus performers in Fan Nan Nan, no wirewalker available to pilot the gayly painted wheelbarrow, one either crossed the gulch hand over hand, commando style (Dickie had done it only once), or waited for Dern to get his old Russian helicopter running.
Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003
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Understanding these biodynamics-why the wirewalker doesn't fall-requires a grasp of the constant fluctuations and fine tunings which maintain balance in the complex, fluid system of human locomotion.
AvaxHome RSS: nester55 2009
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