MOUNTEBANK


Meaning of MOUNTEBANK in English

n. 1 a swindler; a charlatan. 2 a clown. 3 hist. an itinerant quack appealing to an audience from a platform. mountebankery n.

[ It. montambanco = monta in banco climb on bench: see MOUNT(1), BENCH ]

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