a person who performs balancing feats, esp on a high wire
a rich fabric woven with a raised design, often using gold or silver threads
of or suggestive of the dramatic musical compositions of Richard Wagner, their massive scale, dramatic and emotional intensity, etc
persistent or demanding; insistent
a hill or hillside; slope
happiness, esp (in the philosophy of Aristotle) that resulting from a rational active life
(esp in Marxist theory) the amorphous urban social group below the proletariat, consisting of criminals, tramps, etc
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