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saltimbank

saltimbank is the alternative form of saltimbanque.

Meaning of saltimbanque

Noun

saltimbanque (plural saltimbanques)

  1. Tumbler, street acrobat.
    • Circus is a simple, romantic ballet, set to some suitable music by France’s Jacques Ibert, laid in a village square of placardized baroque, and dressed in costumes that suggest the saltimbanques of Picasso.1956 June 11, “The New Pictures”, in Time

Forms of saltimbank

pluralsaltimbanks

Questions about saltimbank

What is saltimbank the alternative form of?
Saltimbank is the alternative form of saltimbanque.

Words near saltimbank in the dictionary

  1. saltillo
  2. saltillos
  3. saltily
  4. saltimbanco
  5. saltimbancos
  6. saltimbank
  7. saltimbanks
  8. saltimbanque
  9. saltimbanques
  10. saltimbocca
  11. saltimboccas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saltimbank (page history and authors); saltimbanque (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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