| 单词 | mountebank doctor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountebank doctor a. Appositive, as mountebank doctor, mountebank physician, mountebank surgeon, etc. ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 111 These Mount-bank Chirurgians. 1687 T. Brown Diary 3 Jan. (1898) 42 Mr. Ritchard Reidman,..a muntebank phisitiane, came to Kirkwall... Ffryday,..he..appeired upon the stage..and yr. shew furth..qt. cures he wuld perfyt. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 9 We saw a Crowd of People gazing at a Mountebank Doctor who made a long Harangue to them with a thousand antick Postures. 1788 J. Cobb Love in East ii. 24 A taylor! he looks more like a mountebank doctor. 1881 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 44 446 Died... Of a mountebank doctor..6. 1982 Washington Post 19 Apr. b14/5 At the..headquarters..of an unspeakable vacuum cleaner company..from which we mountebank vacuum cleaner salesmen were shot each day..there was a wonderful routine. < as lemmas |
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