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mountebank Definition


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mountebank
noun
    literary:
    derog:
    1. formerly
      A medically unqualified person who sold supposed medicines from a public platform; a quack.
    2. Any person who swindles or deceives.
Etymology: 16c: from Italian montimbanco a person who stands up, ie who mounts, a bench.



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