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What's the Meaning of Juggle?
Juggle comes from the latin word joculary, meaning to jest. It was some jugglers providing entertainment through trickery and slighte. The acrobats might perform on the trapeze, where is trapese conefa? That's linked to a trapesium, which is a quadrilateral with one pair of sides that are parallel. So many of these are greek ash. M burlesque is one that's not greek. That actually goes back to the italian berla or burlesco, meaning ridicule or mockery. I wrote a biography of somebody called dan leno, who was known as the funniest man on earth
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