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Delightful person who works with snakes?
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charmer
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charmer \Charm"er\, n. One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. --Deut. xviii. 11. One who delights and attracts the affections.
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Charmers were English practitioners of a specific kind of folk magic , specialising in supernatural healing. Other folk magic traditions include those of the cunning folk , the toad doctors and the girdle-measurers . The charming tradition is quite distinct ...
Usage examples of charmer.
Madame Dupre won over by several presents I made her, received my confidences with kindness, and by asking Agatha and her mother to dinner procured me the pleasure of a more private meeting with my charmer.
An assortment of street entertainers: a snake charmer, a family of acrobats carrying their paraphernalia, a rope climber, two jadugars, a flautist, a Saivite self-flagellator wielding a five-yard-long set of metal-tipped whips, a bear-and-monkey showman.
These words made my charmer go off into a peal of laughter, which she accompanied with a significant glance in my direction.
Chavigni made my charmer sit at his right hand, and I was placed between my two calumniators.
As chance placed me next to my charmer at table, my spirits rose, and my numerous jests and stories put everybody in a good temper.
My heart leapt with joy on seeing my charmer getting down from the carriage, but my joy was not unalloyed, as the husband told me that they must absolutely return on the fourth day, and the wife insisted on the horrible widow being present at all our conversation.
Next morning, as we were walking in the garden, I warned my charmer that I had all the keys of the house, and that I could introduce myself into her room at any moment.
However, the mixture of wines, and above all the punch, had done their work, and my charmers were slightly elevated.
I was grateful to my charmers for having thought of my stomach, but as I had purposely made a late and heavy meal I determined to defer the consumption of my cold collation till a later hour.
Thus the night that I was to pass with my two charmers would be my last.
I passed by the three charmers, and after telling my wine merchant to withdraw his security I went in a furious mood to call on Lord Pembroke.
There drifted down from behind the picture the scratchy recorded notes of a Khatchaturian piano concerto, which mingled eerily with the sullen pipes of snake charmers in a neighbouring street.
They were pretty enough, but my head was full of my perfidious charmer, and besides, despite their neatness and prettiness, they were wanting in that grace which adds so many charms to pleasure.
My dear Dubois did the honours of the table, and I was glad to see that my two male guests were delighted with her, for they did not leave her for a moment during the afternoon, and I was thus enabled to tell my charmer all I had written to her.
The reader will have guessed that the last look my charmer gave me had not extinguished the fire which the first sight of her had kindled in my breast.