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tregetour
noun 
  1. A magician or juggler; a trickster.
  • Late C14: men make diverse apparences, / Swiche as thise subtile tregetoures pleye. " Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin's Tale", Canterbury Tales
  • 1819: I say the sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the "s mummery, and so I got admission " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
  • Etymology: From Old French tregetor, from tregeter "throw around", ultimately from Latin trans- + jactare "throw".

         
     
      

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