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funambulesque

funambulesque adjective: like a tightrope walker; delicately balanced, precarious.

Adjective

funambulesque (comparative more funambulesque, superlative most funambulesque)

  1. (rare) Like a tightrope walker; delicately balanced, precarious.
    • Visitors to the Salon du Camp de Mars cannot fail to have noticed a full-length portrait by Whistler, the portrait of a gentleman of somewhat uncertain age, standing in an attitude half chivalrous, half funambulesque, his hand lightly posed on a small cane.1918, Arthur Symons, Colour Studies in Paris, page 49
    • Some aristocrats in Royal Hungary rather agreed with the Transylvanians, but others – a sufficient number – were relieved to be under Habsburg protection and saw Transylvania as semi-orientalized, disloyal and religiously funambulesque.2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 156

Forms of funambulesque

comparativemore funambulesque
superlativemost funambulesque

Questions about funambulesque

What does funambulesque mean?
Funambulesque means like a tightrope walker; delicately balanced, precarious.
What part of speech is funambulesque?
Funambulesque is an adjective.

Words near funambulesque in the dictionary

  1. funambulation
  2. funambulations
  3. funambulator
  4. funambulators
  5. funambulatory
  6. funambulesque
  7. funambuli
  8. funambulic
  9. funambulism
  10. funambulisms
  11. funambulist

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