Definition of "equilibrist" []

• A person who performs feats of balance, such as tightrope walking. (noun)

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• "The steward brought me my coffee, and, wedged by boxes and pillows, like an equilibrist, I sat up and drank it."
• "When the equilibrist Madame Phom returned to Fan Nan Nan, she did not find Dickie Goldwire at home."
• "Another, an equilibrist, showed her how, when he was obliged to stay in bed with a broken leg and had nobody to wait on him, he used to wait on himself by going round the room on his hands ... like that."