bear tamer

plural bear tamers · alternative bear-tamer · alternative beartamer

1. Synonym of bearleader (“one who handles and keeps bears”).

   The quiet academician was translating, but not transmuting, the gypsy beartamers who crossed the National Gardens; for the beartamers entered his poetry directly.

   1984, Frederic Will, Shamans in Turtlenecks, published 1 November 2021, →ISBN, page 185

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   A ninth table was pro joculatoribus, proprie vor dy herolt, vor dy kokeler, in medio coenaculi—so that the court jesters, gypsies, beartamers, tight-rope walkers and jugglers could entertain the whole room with their arts and pranks.

   1945, Hermann Kesten, translated by A.B. Ashton and Norbert Guterman, Copernicus and his World, London; New York: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.; Roy Publishers, page 129

   During the Sung dynasty the big cities had extensive entertainment quarters where the puppet theatre, marionettes, and shadow-plays could be found alongside acrobats and beartamers (Idema and Haft, 1985:199).

   1993, Bernard Arps, Performance in Java and Bali, published 27 June 2005, →ISBN, page 16

   Synonyms: bearleader