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ventriloquist (n.)
1650s in the classical sense, from
ventriloquy
+
-ist
. In the modern sense from c. 1800. Ventriloquists in ancient Greece were
Pythones
, a reference to the Delphic Oracle. Another English word for them was
gastromyth
.
