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Webster 1913 Edition

Saltimbanco

Salˊtim-ban′co

,

Noun.

[It., literally, one who leaps or mounts upon a bench;

saltare

to leap +

in

in, upon +

banco

a bench.]

A mountebank; a quack.

[Obs.]

[Written also

santinbanco

.]

Saltimbancos

, quacksalvers, and charlatans.

Sir T. Browne.