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tumbere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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tumbere, es; m.
A tumbler, dancer, player
    Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 42-44.
Gligmon mimus, jocista, scurra, gligman pantomimus, tumbere saltator, Tumbere oððe gligman histrio, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 3; Zup. 35, 6.
Etymology
[The feminine form tumbestre occurs in later English: Herodias douȝter, that was a tumbestere, and tumblede byfore him. Halliw. Dict. Than comen tombesteres Fetys and smale. Chauc. Pard. T. 477. See Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, Bk. iii. c. v. § 3. Cf. A tumbler saltator (in a list headed nomina jugulatorum), Wrt. Voc. i. 218, col. 2: saltatrix, 216, col. 2; and see tumbullere saltalrix, in the note. Tumlare, tumblar volutator, volutatrix, Prompt. Parv. 506. Tumbelyster tornatrix, Wülck. Gl. 616, 47.]
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