Definitions for saltimbanco
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Wiktionary
saltimbanco(Noun)
a quack doctor, a fraud.
Origin: From Italian saltimbanco. Used thus in English because of the association with street performers, seen by the settled population in English-speaking culture as not to be trusted. A more usual and more accurate English word, derived from similar sources, is mountebank.
Webster Dictionary
Saltimbanco(noun)
a mountebank; a quack
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