English

Noun

tregetour ‎(plural tregetours)

1. (archaic) A magician or juggler; a trickster.
   • late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     Men make diverse apparences, / Swiche as thise subtile tregetoures pleye.

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     I say the sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour’s mummery, and so I got admission.