highwire-walker

See also: highwire walker, high-wire-walker, and high-wire walker

English

Noun

highwire-walker (plural highwire-walkers)

  1. Alternative form of highwire walker.
    • 1961 March 4, “Circus Time Again”, in The Daily Record, volume 72, number 284, Stroudsburg, Pa., →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
      Joe E. Brown guides viewers through the Bertram Mills Circus of London, England, in “All Star Circus” Saturday, March 25 on NBC-TV. Here he is shown with highwire-walker Josephine Berosini as she prepares for her act.
    • 2001 July 10, “Circus will perform Sunday in Hermiston”, in East Oregonian, 126th year, number 251, Pendleton, Ore., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5A, column 5:
      The American Crown Circus will feature acrobats, aerialists, highwire-walkers, clowns, clowns and more clowns.
    • 2011 September 9, Michael Smith, “‘Nim’ a good look at us”, in Tulsa World, Tulsa, Okla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D 3, columns 2–3:
      Director James Marsh (the 2008 documentary Oscar winner for “Man on Wire,” about highwire-walker Philippe Petit) […]
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