mountebank

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From archaic Italian montambanco (“quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares”), contracted from monta-in-banco (“mount on bench”).

You mean a mountebank--an impostor?" — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend
He is a clown--a mountebank! — The rose of old St. Louis, Mary (Mary C. Johnson) Dillon
The Mountebank and Countryman 277 233. — Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, Charles Madison Curry

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