| 单词 | fire-swallower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire-swallower fire-swallower n. †(a) U.S. (before the American Civil War) an extreme southern partisan advocating secession from the Union; = fire-eater n. 2b (obsolete rare); (b) a performer who swallows, or appears to swallow, flames or burning material; = fire-eater n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer > types of knife-warper?c1225 saccularian1652 fire-eater1676 fire king1796 juggler1807 stone-eater1820 sword-swallower1826 fire-swallower1857 salamander1859 jadoo-wallah1890 knife-thrower1905 gully-gully man1930 1857 Weekly Raleigh (N. Carolina) Reg. 4 Mar. The self-appointed champions of Southern Rights, the fire-chawers and fire-swallowers, the Jeff. Davises, and all that herd of State Rights cattle. 1874 Daily News 5 June The street rope-tiers and fire-swallowers, the jugglers and stone-breakers, are subject to the inevitable law of ‘move on’. 1924 A. Huxley Little Mexican 57 Fat women, fire-swallowers, elastic men. 2001 C. Benard Turning on Girls 165 We have the Renaissance Room... Medieval dress, jugglers, fire-swallowers, and of course your waitpersons, in tights. < as lemmas |
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