英语词汇mountebank的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	mountebank
词源	mountebank. Quacks often sold their nostrums at medieval fairs by mounting a bench and giving their pitch—so often that they were given the name mountebanks, from the Italian mon- tambanco, “mount on bench.”
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