What is "prestidigitators"

Usage examples of "prestidigitators".

No ordinary slum, this, although the huts built out of old packing cases and pieces of corrugated tin and shreds of jute sacking which stood higgledy‑piggledy in the shadow of the mosque looked no different from any other shanty‑town… because this was the ghetto of the magicians, yes, the very same place which had once spawned a Hummingbird whom knives had pierced and pie‑dogs had failed to save… the conjurers' slum, to which the greatest fakirs and prestidigitators and illusionists in the land continually flocked, to seek their fortune in the capital city.

First, there are the sleight-of-hand artists, the prestidigitators, the jugglers, the illusionists-people who entertain their audiences with dexterity and physical skill.