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blondin¹

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From French blondin. Named after the French tightrope walker and acrobat Charles Blondin (1824–1897).

noun blondins · Blondin

  1. A specialized type of material ropeway that incorporates a mechanism to raise and lower loads vertically from the suspended ropeway. While it is possible with using a blondin to set up the two concrete mixing plants with concretes of different compositions, being placed simultaneously in two distinct zones of the same lift, it is necessary in the case of the conveyor to concrete the two zones successively, which makes it necessar

Blondin²

Where it comes from

From French Blondin. The noun is after the French tightrope walker Charles Blondin (1824–1897).

proper noun Blondins

  1. A surname from French.

noun Blondins

  1. idiomatic An expert tightrope walker. My invention has cost me some money, some anxiety, and condemned my little ones to all the miseries of poverty and banishment in the bush, whereas if I had been a successful cricketer, a good bowler, or a rifle shooter without pluck, a Blondin, or an acrobat, I and mine would have escaped these ills
  2. Alternative letter-case form of blondin Incised with painstaking delicacy and strength of vision into the single slab are four scenes: quarry rock-men in a pit with a Blondin (a carrying-cradle running on wire cables) above them; […]

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@misc{blondin_2026,
  title = {blondin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blondin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}