mountebanksとは 意味・読み方・使い方

That gentleman was a sort of Barnum, the director of a troupe of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns, acrobats, equilibrists and gymnasts,発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

この紳士はバーナムの一人で、軽業師、手品師、道化、曲芸師、綱渡り、体操師などを抱える一座の団長だった。 - JULES VERNE『80日間世界一周』

Various types of candy vendors competed so fiercely that some sold candies by using lotteries, some attracted customers with entertainments, and some sold candies by delivering sales pitch, from which derived mountebanks called tekiya in present street stalls and night stalls.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

--多種多様な飴売りが存在し競争も激しかった為、今の出店や夜店の的屋の元になる、くじ形式や余興や口上などで趣向を凝らしていた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス