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单词 tregetour
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tregetourn.

Forms: Also Middle English tregetowr, tregettur, trigettur, tri-, trygetoure, Middle English tregetoure, tregitour, tregitoure, trigetour, Middle English–1500s tregettour, Middle English tregetur, tregettowre, ( trageotour), 1500s trygetour, tragetour, treageter, trogeter, trogettar.
Etymology: < Old French tre(s)geteo(u)r (12th cent. in Godefroy) a juggler, mountebank, agent-noun of tre(s)geter to cast across or to and fro < Latin type *tra(ns)jectāre , < trans- prefix + jactāre to throw, cast: see traject n. Compare Italian tragettatore juggler; and, for sense, cast n. 24, caster n. 1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtregetour.
archaic.
One who works magic or plays tricks by sleight of hand; a conjurer; a juggler; hence, a trickster, a deceiver.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer
jugglera1100
tregetour1340
hey-passa1593
prestigiator1595
baffler1606
feat-worker1617
hocus-pocus1624
hocus1647
chirosophist1652
fascinator1677
legerdemain1696
prestidigitator1712
conjurer1727
sleight-of-hand man1757
nimble-fingers1781
sleight-of-hand professor1801
legerdemainist1830
magician1834
illusionist1850
jongleura1851
wizard1859
deceptionist1883
mentalist1906
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4213 Als negremanciens and tregettours, Wiches and false enchauntours.
c1380 Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 128 Wiþ tregetours & tomblers, wiþ gestours & japeres.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12247 A tregetur [Gött. trigettur, Fairf. tregitour, Trin. Cambr. tregettour] i hope he be, Or elles godds self es he.
?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aijv For trygetours and tryflours that tauernes haunte.
1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede 65 b These persons do make Christe a iuglere or a trogeter and a wonderfull deceiuer.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. v. 223 A dauncing Tregetour..was acting and counterfeiting certaine gestures that were commonly and usually taken up.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xii. 312 The sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour's mummery.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. ii. 28 The more sombre Tregetour..promised to cut off and refix the head of a sad-faced little boy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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