"saltimbanco" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian saltimbanco. Used thus in English because of the association with street performers, seen by the settled population in English-speaking culture as not to be trusted. A more usual and more accurate English word, derived from similar sources, is mountebank.",
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        "A quack doctor, a fraud."
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      "ipa": "/sæltɪmˈbæŋkəʊ/"
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  "word": "saltimbanco"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian saltimbanco. Used thus in English because of the association with street performers, seen by the settled population in English-speaking culture as not to be trusted. A more usual and more accurate English word, derived from similar sources, is mountebank.",
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