Blondin

blondin English Etymology From en fr Blondin. The noun is after the French tightrope walker Charles Blondin (1824–1897). Proper noun s en French. Translations surname French: fr Blondin Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Blondin is the 21535th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1212 individuals. Blondin is most common among White (89.6%) individuals. Noun en idiom An expert tightrope walker. en 1 November 1899 Richard Bowyer Smith Wheatgrowing in South Australia Alexander Jenyns Boyd The Queensland Agricultural Journal,Issued by Direction of the Hon. the Secretary for Agriculture. V Brisbane, Qld. Edmund Gregory,Government Printer. 457 https://archive.org/details/queenslandagric5quee/page/457/mode/1up 0157-7786 1763300 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. en 1938 Frank Sydney Smythe The Mana Peak: The Reconnaissance The Valley of Flowers uniform London Hodder and Stoughton Limited 1947 220–221 https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2718/page/221/mode/1up 11101896 A step or two upwards, then one to the right, and my exploring hand was able to touch a small, sloping, scree-covered ledge. This was covered by a film of ice, which I cleared as well as I could with one hand while supporting myself with the other. Having at last decided that a step was justifiable, I balanced up with the delicacy, but scarcely the grace, of a Blondin and a moment later was on the ledge. en 2013 Philip Howard What is the correct term? Modern Manners: The Essential Guide to Correct Behaviour and Etiquette London The Robson Press 273 https://archive.org/details/modernmannersess0000howa/page/273/mode/1up 978-1-84954-630-0 A daily newspaper is a great lake in which intellectual elephants can swim and lambs can paddle. Accordingly, the columnist is a Blondin, treading a tightrope over Victoria Falls between obscurity and triviality, condescension and ostentation, and often falling into the foaming minestrone. en 2015 Jeremy Kingston The Nubile Bachelor Sherlock Holmes and a Scandal in BataviaA Deposition by John H. Watson, M.D., Not to be Published During the Lifetime of Certain Persons Named Herein. But Now Published as Edited by Jeremy Kingston London Robert Hale 79 https://archive.org/details/sherlockholmesan0000king/page/79/mode/1up 978-0-7198-1611-6 But the several schemes that I imagined for passing a message from the train were so doubtful of success, or required the sure-footedness of a Blondin, that I discarded each of them in turn. en blondin. en 1997 w:Jim Perrin Heartland Visions of Snowdonia: Landscape and Legend London w:BBC Books 130 https://archive.org/details/visionsofsnowdon0000jimp/page/130/mode/1up 0 563 38302 X 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; en 2001 Margaret Aitken 4 In My Small Corner: Memories of an Orkney Childhood Dalkeith, Midlothian Scottish Cultural Press 38 https://archive.org/details/inmysmallcornerm0000aitk/page/38/mode/1up 1 84017 002 6 Thousands and thousands of steel-mesh bags were filled with boulders, swung into place by a Blondin and dumped one by one into the water until the channel was blocked. en 2012 James Crawford Lowlands Scotland’s Landscapes The National Collection of Aerial Photography Edinburgh w:Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 144 https://archive.org/details/scotlandslandsca0000craw/page/144/mode/1up 9781902419824 Once material arrived at the Lodge, it was shipped to the site by means of a ‘Blondin’ – an overhead ropeway named after the famous Frenchman Charles Blondin, who crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope in 1859. en 2015 w:David Astle Why is Blondin like a prizefighter? Riddledom: 101 Riddles and Their Stories Crows Nest, N.S.W. w:Allen & Unwin “Famous & Forgettable” section 229 https://archive.org/details/riddledom101ridd0000davi/page/229/mode/1up 978 1 76011 260 8 There have been stage plays and songs about the French funambulist, street names, and a Welsh device dubbed a Blondin that carries rocks along a cable. en 2016 Kellan Macinnes The Grave in the Woods The Making of Mickey Bell Dingwall, Highland Sandstone Press 226 https://archive.org/details/makingofmickeybe0000maci/page/226/mode/1up 978-1-910985-27-4 [T]he marshy ground is imprinted with the pattern of long gone railway sleepers. A stump of concrete stands high on the hillside. The remains of a Blondin, a cable lift once used to haul stone and rubble and spoil across the river. Further reading Blondin (surname) en eponyms French Etymology fr Proper noun fr Blondin Descendants en Blondin 1