† tumblestern.

Forms: Middle English tomblester, tomblestre, tomblister(e, Middle English tumbelyster.

Etymology: Feminine of tumbler n.: see -ster suffix, and the parallel form tumbester n.

Obsolete.

A female tumbler or dancer; a dancing-girl.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > acrobat

tumblera1340

tumbesterc1386

tumblesterc1386

playera1425

speeler1496

balancer?1518

petaurist1656

tumbling lass1687

balance-master1753

balance-mistress1801

jerry-come-tumble1823

acrobat1827

evolutionist1833

jerry-go-nimble1874

c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Lansd. MS.) 15 And riht anone þan come tomblesters [so Petworth; Corpus tomblisteres] Fetis and smal and ȝonge fruytsters.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 616/47 Tornatrix, a tumbelyster.

1844 G. P. R. James Agincourt I. 233 Who ever heard of King before who troubled his nobility about minstrels and tomblesteres?

1850 G. P. R. James Old Oak Chest I. 125 To make the contortions of their ‘saltimbanks’ and ‘tomblesteres’ act as a sort of argument or introduction to what was to follow.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	tumblester
释义	† tumblestern. Forms: Middle English tomblester, tomblestre, tomblister(e, Middle English tumbelyster. Etymology: Feminine of tumbler n.: see -ster suffix, and the parallel form tumbester n. Obsolete. A female tumbler or dancer; a dancing-girl. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > acrobat tumblera1340 tumbesterc1386 tumblesterc1386 playera1425 speeler1496 balancer?1518 petaurist1656 tumbling lass1687 balance-master1753 balance-mistress1801 jerry-come-tumble1823 acrobat1827 evolutionist1833 jerry-go-nimble1874 c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Lansd. MS.) 15 And riht anone þan come tomblesters [so Petworth; Corpus tomblisteres] Fetis and smal and ȝonge fruytsters. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 616/47 Tornatrix, a tumbelyster. 1844 G. P. R. James Agincourt I. 233 Who ever heard of King before who troubled his nobility about minstrels and tomblesteres? 1850 G. P. R. James Old Oak Chest I. 125 To make the contortions of their ‘saltimbanks’ and ‘tomblesteres’ act as a sort of argument or introduction to what was to follow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1386
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