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ˈring-master
Also ringmaster.
[f. ring n.1]
One who manages or directs the performances in the ring of a circus. Also transf.
1873Frost Circus Life Pref. 5 The stentorian vocal organs of the proprietor or ring-master of a travelling circus. 1883Century Mag. July 419/2 An aged and tattered negro was the mule's ring-master. 1943C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake 51 Ringmaster, squadron commander. 1952L. Bell Inside Fight Game iv. 73 A match maker can be, and often is, the promoter of a boxing show. His license also permits him to officiate as ringmaster. 1958F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict. 95 Ringmaster, the official in charge of the arrangements at a boxing venue. 1972N.Y. Times 4 June v. 9/6 James Fallon, the manager, and C. L. (Honey) Craven, the ringmaster, both expressed their pleasure with the new surface. ‘The new ring makes things much easier for the rider,’ said Fallon.
Hence as v. trans.; also ˈringmastership, the art or status of a ringmaster; also fig.
1964New Statesman 17 Apr. 616/1 To bring off this effect, Caligula needs producing as a kind of play-within-itself: a fantastic circus of cruelty ring⁓mastered by Caligula for a circle of witnesses as sane as he is. 1966Economist 22 Oct. 378/2 That they did not do so during last week's conference was due in considerable measure to some masterly ringmastership on the part of the party chairman, Sir Dan Mason. 1969P. West Words for Deaf Daughter iii. 72 Speeding up, you ringmaster him [sc. a budgerigar] through his full repertoire of forward rolls and swift, thudding vaults. 1969Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 15/7 Most circuses get by without script-writers but this one had five, doubling up as clowns performing what they had written under the ringmastership of Ian McNaughton. |