fire-eater

Examples

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• Waterside is full of jugglers and fire-eaters, entertaining thick crowds of Americans and Japanese.

  Fiction book (1994)

• They pass a Wild West display, jugglers, fire-eaters, three-card tricksters...

  Fiction book (1994)

• Damn it, fire-eaters were very popular on Pupil III.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The damn woman had visited the Four Mile Circus over and over and had turned up at the fire eater's show exactly once.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Later, we pursued the fire eater and learned that he had been hired to enhance the Order of the Arrow.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The jugglers, fire-eaters, and other traditional performers went first, followed by Sardan and his mandolin.

  Fiction book (1992)

• He was a fire-eater by trade, and as I expressed interest in the trade, and as I was a guest of Gerhand Vilkis, who paid him every week, he was friendly and talkative.

  Fiction book (1999)

• 178 PATRICIA'S POV - HANDHELD 178a. Fire-eaters on either side of a small volcano.

  Fiction book (1990)

• They emerge from a cab into a dreamlike landscape, illuminated by the lights of Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers and the strolling fire-eaters performing in the piazza.

  Fiction book (1994)

• At the festival, the fire-eater demonstrated his skills by swallowing fire and spinning flaming torches.

Synonyms

F

fire-swallower

vsfire-eater

9.2

A performer who seems to swallow fire to entertain people

is a general description of entertaining by appearing to take flames into the mouth

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Etymology