arch. [Sp. or It., ad. L. fūnambulus: see FUNAMBULE.] A funambulist.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. xv. § 2. 58. The Trickes of Tumblers, Funambuloes, Baladynes. Ibid. (a. 1626), Let. & Disc. H. Saville, in Resuscitatio (1657), 227. We see the Industry, and Practise, of Tumblers, and Funambulo’s.
1895. N. & Q., 8th Ser. VIII. 251. The conjurors and funambuloes of our adventurously impudent century.
