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    [Noun]  | "moun*te*bank" | \ ˈmau̇n-ti-ˌbaŋk \


    1: a person who sells quack medicines from a platform

    2: a boastful unscrupulous pretender : charlatan


    Origin: 1566 ;

     Italian montimbanco, from montare to mount + in in, on + banco, banca bench;

    [Noun]  | "mountebank" 


    1: one who makes false claims of identity or expertise;


      * e.g., " ... claimed that many doctors were frauds and mountebanks "



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