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Meanings of prestidigitator in English

Portuguese
ilusionista
Catalan
mag
Spanish
mago

Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience.

ilusionista
Usage of prestidigitator in English
1
Had Pierre been a prestidigitator and had he merely said presto!
The Poisoned Pen
2
You call me a prestidigitator, a fraud-youshall suffer for that!
The Silent Bullet
3
The same audience would applaud Paderewski or a great prestidigitator.
The Young Man and the World
4
Such a prestidigitator as Signor Fantoccini has only to say-Presto
Hearts and Masks
5
That God is a juggler-heis the infinite prestidigitator.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I / Including His Answe...
6
Then we had Rufus Kellar Smith, the parlor prestidigitator.
You Should Worry Says John Henry
7
At all these performances there are always amongst the spectators persons in league with the prestidigitator.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)
8
DENTIST, n. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
The Devil's Dictionary
9
Edmund, with the skill of a prestidigitator, got out another match, and pushed it into my fingers.
A Columbus of Space
10
Her smooth hand stretched toward him as quickly as a prestidigitator's, with the glass of orange juice.
Little Miss By-The-Day
11
Strike out the element of time and we see evolution as the great prestidigitator of the biologic ages.
Time and Change
12
It passed before Flora's eyes like a prestidigitator's trick, so rapid as to seem unreal, and left her staring.
The Coast of Chance
13
These were Prior, the prosperous City coffee importer, and Lang, the stockjobber, well known in his own circle as an amateur prestidigitator.
A Voyage to Arcturus
14
But it is best for a boy unpracticed and without the dexterity of a professional prestidigitator not to undertake to play with fire.
Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater; Or, The Most Dangerous Performanc...
15
It may be that the man called Rostat who, eight years ago, worked with Dickson, the prestidigitator, was none other than Arsène Lupin.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
16
They raked losing bets and paid winners with the speed of prestidigitators.
Vigorish
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Translations for prestidigitator
Spanish
mago
Prestidigitator through the time