funambulatory

Adjective

 * 1) Performing in the manner of a tightrope walker.
 * 2) * 1728,, , Volume 1, p. 107, under F UNAMBULUS ,
 * In the ', or Ludi Florales, held under ', there were funambulatory Elephants, as we are inform’d by .
 * 1) * 1868, Review of, ', translated by , ', Volume 106, Number 219, April 1868, p. 705,
 * At a time when Gottsched and his compeers seemed hopelessly infected with Gallomania, and the temple of the Muses had degenerated into a funambulatory platform, on which unwieldy Teutons were emulating agile Frenchmen in dancing on the tight-rope of pseudo-classicism, Lessing appeared, and with a dramaturgical scourge of small cords drove the mimes from the stage, shifted the scene, and inaugurated a new era for German art and culture.
 * 1) Narrow, like a tightrope.
 * 2) Pertaining to tightrope walking
 * 1) Pertaining to tightrope walking
 * 1) Pertaining to tightrope walking