Reprise

An indirect renewal of an attack that missed or was parried. This is a continuation of an attack, and does not have priority (in foil and sabre) over a direct riposte.

reprisals

Politics; Political Science

Retaliation taken in revenge for some injury suffered, as in, the government decided to take reprisals against the country responsible for terrorist acts.

trapeze

Entertainment; Circus

A circus apparatus, which is used frequently in aerial acts; the name of relevant circus genre. Immobile trapeze is a small round cross-beam with iron rods secured in its both ...

trengel

Entertainment; Circus

This is a professional term of street performers to designate the collecting of money by performers with a plate or hat in their hands from spectators just before the performance.

trinka

Entertainment; Circus

A short bed, steeply ascending up in its one side and placed onto the ring surface with its other side. An antipodist, lying there on his back and shoulders and leaning against ...

twenty-four hour man

Entertainment; Circus

A circus employee who plans the route to the next town, marks the route with arrows, and determines where the circus will be set up on the lot.

uniformists

Entertainment; Circus

Ring workers who install and replace the circus props, prepare circus apparatuses and ring for circus acts. Uniformists are usually in two rows along the sides of vorgang during ...

voltige

Entertainment; Circus

Originally performed by beginners to open the circus show. It was an act where riders, standing on the backs of horses, struck various poses, jumped from horses and across ...

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Milky Way bubbles

The two giant bubbles of high-energy gamma rays protruding from the Milky Way, each spanning 25,000 light-years across, roughly the size of the galaxy ...