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† tumbester Obs.
Also 4–5 tombester(e, tumbestere, 5 -istere.
[Feminine of OE. tumbere tumbler, dancer, acrobat: see -ster. Cf. OF. tumberesse, tumeresse (f. tomber to fall), in same sense (13th c. in Godef.).]
A female tumbler or dancer. See also tumblester.
c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 15 (Ellesm.) And right anon thanne comen Tombesteres [Cambr. Tumbesteris; Corp., Petw., Lansd. tombl.] Fetys and smale and yonge frutesteres. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 15 In Grees was no man grettre þan Alisaundre; noþeles Perdica, a tombester [MS. β and Caxton tomblestres; Higden saltatricis] sone, was his successour, and nouȝt his owne sone. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ii. (Skeat) l. 118 Perdicas..was of no kinges blod, his dame was a tombystere. 14..MS. Harl. 2398 lf. 8 Herodias douȝ ter, þat was a tumbestere, and tumblede by fore him and oþer grete lordes. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. ix. (1869) 180, I hatte jolyfnesse, þe lyghte, þe tumbistere, þe rennere, þe fonne, þe lepere. |