"Mountebank" is a word in ENGLISH
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other
public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends
medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
To play the mountebank.
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...
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The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
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