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Definition of Acrobats
1. acrobat [n] - See also: acrobat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrobats
Literary usage of Acrobats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"Children as acrobats.—Barbarous Treatment of a Little Girl by her Trainer. ...
This feeling is intensified in the case of child-acrobats and ..."
2. Old Church Lore by William Andrews (1891)
"acrobats on Steeples. N bygone times, the public were often entertained by the
performances of acrobats on church steeples. We gather, from the brief ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Ivory Figures and Hearts of Athletes, Bull-Fighters or acrobats, Cnossus. RSA viii.
Platea II. ami III., and p. 73 sq. By permission of the Hellenic Society ..."
4. Young Americans in Japan by Edward Greey (1881)
"acrobats AND CONTORTIONISTS. Mrs. Jewett and her daughter rode on with the ladies
of their host's family, and left the gentlemen to watch the athletes. ..."
5. Little-folk Lyrics by Frank Dempster Sherman (1897)
"WINTER'S acrobats BY night he spread his white rugs down Upon the highways of
the town; His posters on the fences told Of games and pleasures manifold, ..."
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