单词 | tumblester |
释义 | † ˈtumblester Obs. Forms: 4–5 tomblester, -stre, tomblister(e, 5 tumbelyster. [Feminine of tumbler: see -ster, and the parallel form tumbester.] A female tumbler or dancer; a dancing-girl.
c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 15 (Lansd. MS.) And riht anone þan come tomblesters [so Petw.; Corpus tomblisteres] Fetis and smal and ȝonge fruytsters. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 616/47 Tornatrix, a tumbelyster. 1844James Agincourt I. 233 Who ever heard of King before who troubled his nobility about minstrels and tomblesteres? 1850― 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. |

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