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Trapeze
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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or Trapese, a form of swing, consisting of a crossbar suspended by ropes and used for gymnastic exercises, acrobatic displays and the like. The name was so applied in French (trapeze) from the resemblance of the apparatus to a " trapezium " or irregular four-sided figure. The Greek Tpa1rE tov is a diminutive of Tp6. rq"a, a table, literally a four-footed or four-legged object, being a shortened form of rerpair€ -a (TETpa-, four, and 77--a, foot).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Trapeze'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/trapeze.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Trapeze'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/trapeze.html. 1910.
