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1word1day, karmic_serenity 1word1day mountebank \MOUN-tuh-bank\, noun:
1. A peddler of quack medicine, who stands on a platform to appeal to the audience.
2. A charlatan; a boastful pretender to knowledge or a skill.
Mountebank comes from the Italian montambanco, montimbanco, from the phrase monta in banco, literally "mounts on bench" (i.e. "gets up on a bench").
To his critics including some of the other topnotchers in the
-- "Captain Picasso's Voyages", Time, June 26, 1950
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