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Meanings of prestidigitator in inglés

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Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience.

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        Usage of prestidigitator in inglés
        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
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        They raked losing bets and paid winners with the speed of prestidigitators.
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        Translations for prestidigitator
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        Prestidigitator through the time