# saltimbanque *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Nov 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Peter Cash *03 Nov 1997, 10:37* The english analogue to "saltimbanque" would be "mountebank". As Cristina (?) has pointed out, there's a connotation of quackery or larceny. However, I believe that "saltimbanque" can also refer to a table dancer--an entertainer. Sgt. Rock ---