Acrobatess

Quick meaning: Acrobatess is a noun meaning A female acrobat.

Meaning

A female acrobat.

Example Sentences

I tumble to her and throw off the covers. Ivory, apple peel pure, breasts hinting (breasts of an acrobatess), hips rounding — someday, I always thought, after retirement: children — strong legs tapering and her left foot, water.

What I’m going to say is, they think I’m a peasant or something. Imagine a peasant at second-base for the Cardinals! But that’s not the big thing. The big thing is she doesn’t want to be an acrobat or an acrobatess or whatever you call them. She can’t be. She’s ticklish.

So far only two or three of Shaw’s manly women have been recognizable human beings; the rest have been burlesques. Lina Szczepanowska, the Polish acrobatess who steps calmly out of the wreckage of John Tarleton’s glass pavilion and Joey’s Percival’s aeroplane in Misalliance, falls somewhere in between, but Shaw’s conception of her is basically serious.

Many persons were interested in the antics of a well-dressed brunette on the Bowery last night. She was leaping awkwardly over small obstructions, essaying somersaults, and anon playing the game of tag with herself. / It was thought by some that she was a real acrobatess a little under the weather. / A policeman arrived at the height of her fun, and inquired what she was doing.

Word Forms

• acrobatesses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acrobat, balancer, aerialist, contortionist, teeterboarder, posturist.

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