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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prestidigitator \Pres'ti*dig"i*ta'tor\, noun [L. praesto ready + digitus finger: cf. F. prestidigitateur.] One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prestidigitator
noun: someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: {magician}, {conjurer}, {conjuror}, {illusionist}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "prestidigitator": artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, ecdysiast, entertainer, escamoteur, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, hoofer, illusionist, impersonator, juggler, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, peeler, performer, public entertainer, show girl, singer, sleight-of-hand performer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, tricker, trickster, vaudevillian, vaudevillist
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