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Trapeze   Listen
noun
Trapeze  n.  
1.
(Geom.) A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.
2.
A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; used by gymnasts.






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"Trapeze" Quotes from Famous Books



... Yes, I was going to be an acrobat and wear pretty red tights with glittering spangles! It would be nice, too, I thought incidentally, to be near the little lady who wore the pink tights and did such awe-inspiring stunts on the flying-trapeze. The circus sawdust ring and the flapping folds of canvas may lure boys from books and study, but they give us our first ambition to be and to do something. Mine was of short duration, however. It came and went ...
— Confessions of a Neurasthenic • William Taylor Marrs

... figure in green tights in the basket diminished to a mere spot, and the balloon itself, in the brilliant light, looked like a big silver-grey bat, with its wings folded. When it began to sink, the girl stepped through the hole in the basket to a trapeze that hung below, and gracefully descended through the air, holding to the rod with both hands, keeping her body taut and her feet close together. The crowd, which had grown very large by this time, cheered vociferously. The men took off their hats and waved, little boys ...
— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather

... ceiling, so that the bar shall be six inches above the head of the person who is to use it; the toes should be placed under straps nailed to the floor to keep them in position. Then if the bar be grasped and the body thrown forward, the trapeze, the arms, and the body will form the segment of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various

... who has mastered every branch of his art, from the spidery contortions of the India-rubber man to the double somersault and the flying trapeze, is to the well-developed individual of ordinary muscular habits, so is the language of Rueckert in this work to the language of all other German authors. It is one perpetual gymnastic show of grammar, rhythm, and fancy. Moods, tenses, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various



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