funambulesque

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1. rareLike a tightrope walker; delicately balanced, precarious.

   Some aristocrats in Royal Hungary rather agreed with the Transylvanians, but others – a sufficient number – were relieved to be under Habsburg protection and saw Transylvania as semi-orientalized, disloyal and religiously funambulesque.

   2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 156

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   Visitors to the Salon du Camp de Mars cannot fail to have noticed a full-length portrait by Whistler, the portrait of a gentleman of somewhat uncertain age, standing in an attitude half chivalrous, half funambulesque, his hand lightly posed on a small cane.

   1918, Arthur Symons, Colour Studies in Paris, page 49