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See also:TRAPEZE, or TRAPESE , a See also:form of See also:swing, consisting of a See also:cross-See also:bar suspended by See also:ropes and used for gymnastic exercises, acrobatic displays and the like . The name was so applied in See also:French (See also:trapeze) from the resemblance of the apparatus to a " trapezium " or irregular four-sided figure . The See also:Greek Tpa7rq'rov is a diminutive of rparrq"a, a table, literally a four-footed or four-legged See also:object, being a shortened form of rETpa~re~ a (TErpa-, four, and itq'a, See also:foot) . |
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